Example sentences of "do not [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many of the larger integrated securities firms such as UBS Philips & Drew , Barclays de Zoete Wedd , Warburg Securities and Hoare Govett do not generally cater for private clients now , many other firms do , offering a whole range of services including advisory or discretionary fund management . |
| 2 | The 1987 SORP points out that local authorities do not generally accrue for capital expenditure and sales and disposals of capital assets . |
| 3 | They do not officially vote for the president until December 14 but , as they follow the will of their states , the result will effectively be known after today 's election . |
| 4 | When you find the area of the library in which the class number of your book is located , do not immediately look for it , but try to locate the range of shelving where the class number can be found on the spines of the books . |
| 5 | The vast flocks of gulls at rubbish tips do not normally compete for food resources with other birds , but black-headed gulls do sometimes take advantage of other species ' food-finding skills . |
| 6 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 7 | So far they have gained little official recognition and therefore do not automatically qualify for government grants to students . |
| 8 | These considerations , however , do not fully account for the failure of Ford 's presidency . |
| 9 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 10 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 11 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 12 | Richard Wright 's study suggests that whilst police do not necessarily look for evidence of extreme violence , they do seek evidence of some violence or threat . |
| 13 | Companies do not much care for the interventionist policies of Mitterrand 's government , including its decision to nationalise all the large IT companies . |
| 14 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 15 | Yet such interpretations do not sufficiently account for them . |
| 16 | So remember — study to learn the subject ; do not merely work for the examination . |
| 17 | This may be a source of embarrassment ; people do not usually meet for social or business purposes dressed in this way . |
| 18 | ( c ) The facts in History do not always speak for themselves . |
| 19 | At one extreme , there are species that live in the sea and never move , such as bivalve molluscs , and others that do move , such as starfish , in which the sexes do not really associate for breeding at all . |
| 20 | They hijack Englishness and do not really speak for most English people . |
| 21 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 22 | ‘ I know you do not greatly care for her , Edwin . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't particularly care for it myself . |
| 24 | Do n't just go for the figures . |
| 25 | I do n't just go for the light . |
| 26 | So you do n't just pay for kilowatts that you use , what do you pay for ? |
| 27 | Do n't just look for a job in jobcentres ’ — after all , the Government have closed down most of them — ’ but get out and actively look for temporary work elsewhere . ’ |
| 28 | But they do n't just flower for the fortnight you spent in Sarajevo : English roses fill the air with fragrance for month after month . |
| 29 | Do n't normally go for Indian much actually do we ? |
| 30 | In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be . |