Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort .
2 A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining .
3 They 've not been making money for years though
4 A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter .
5 Since it is the world leader at fashioning new-fangled superconductors made from thallium and bismuth ( which work at higher and more convenient temperatures ) , Sumitomo Electric sees no reason why it should not be supplying coils for sea-going SEMP vessels before the decade is out .
6 Or indeed , if the consequences of that particular policy decision is such that the erm , the revenue considerations were serious and improvable and in which case , you would not be deriving value for money , and I most certainly would have a comment to make .
7 The Government is hoping the BMA 's acceptance of assurances that patients will not be denied drugs for cash reasons will also end allegations that doctors will not take the elderly and chronically sick on lists because they are too expensive to treat .
8 We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures .
9 Not being given money for sweets .
10 Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work .
11 ‘ I would n't be drinking lemonade for just any man , ’ she said .
12 But he added : ‘ I wo n't be asking Santa for one . ’
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