Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 2 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 3 | After thanking the committee for their work during the year , Mr. King announced that John Edelsten , John Sayer and Eddie Bryant would not be standing for re-election . |
| 4 | A TORY county councillor will not be standing for re-election next month because he fears his business affairs could lead to his disqualification from office . |
| 5 | President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election . |
| 6 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 7 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 8 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 9 | From a personal point of view I think that charity , charitable giving by er companies whether big or small should be erm should be erm on that basis I mean they should n't be looking for acknowledgement but unfortunately in the real world companies are looking to see what we can get back in terms of the investment they make and |
| 10 | I should n't be looking for confirmation , outside myself , I mean . ’ |