Example sentences of "not [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 2 | The Scarman Report commented on the turnover of staff in the mail order department in 1976 : ‘ many of the immigrant workers did not stay for very long : the threat of dismissal must have been an anxiety for many in the workforce . |
| 3 | Jordi seemed frightened , and we did not stay for long . |
| 4 | You must forgive me , Mrs O'Dell , I fear I can not stay for coffee — I have many other calls upon my time . |
| 5 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |
| 6 | She did not stay for coffee . |
| 7 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 8 | If you do not return to work , or if you do return but do not stay for at least three months , the twelve weeks at payment will be recovered . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll not stay for the wedding ? |
| 10 | ‘ And now , knowing the truth , or as much as I 'm prepared to divulge , will you not stay for the wedding ? |
| 11 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 12 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 13 | I shall not stay for coffee . |
| 14 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 15 | As already stated , the defendant 's real defence was one of accident , but that did not dispense with the need for the judge to leave the issue of provocation to the jury if there was any evidence to justify that course ; and the defendant contended that the judge was wrong to have directed the jury that provocation did not arise for their consideration . |
| 16 | So the question of the soundness of Atkins L.J . 's dictum did not arise for decision in that case . |
| 17 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 18 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 19 | The question did not arise for those settling in their state 's colonies , who could continue to remain Englishmen or Frenchmen in New Zealand or Algeria , thinking of the old country as ‘ home ’ . |
| 20 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 21 | The proposal was that His Majesty would invite certain individuals as individuals to take upon their shoulders the burden of carrying on the Government and Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Samuel ( sic ) had stated that they were prepared to act accordingly … the Administration would not exist for a period longer than was necessary to dispose of the emergency , and when that purpose was achieved the political parties would resume their respective positions . |
| 22 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 23 | One possibility which did not exist for Franca , since something in her had already killed it dead , was that one day Jack might tire of Alison , or Alison of Jack . |
| 24 | This general tendency in soil conservation evaluation derives from similar problems identified by critics of the existing approaches to agricultural research , namely the lack of a continuous outreach to and from research stations and farmers , and the conducting of programmes under conditions that do not exist for the farmer/pastoralist who is supposed to adopt them ( Biggs 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Conservation safeguards exist in the UK , particularly for SSSIs and , to a lesser extent ( under a voluntary arrangement ) in the National Parks of England and Wales , but such afforestation Proposals outside designated areas would not be subject to any significant level of control , particularly because prior approval does not exist for grant aid . |
| 26 | About half of all part-timers earn below the limit , and therefore do not exist for national insurance purposes . |
| 27 | If you did n't buy New Scientist in order to find out more about science , the magazine would not exist for long . |
| 28 | Ruskin argued that art must not exist for itself , but for its subject , nature — ‘ All Great Art is Praise ’ — and to express and enhance society , so that a worthless society could produce only worthless art , and vice versa . |
| 29 | The sooner an agreement is notified the longer the period of protection from fines is likely to be , since such protection does not exist for any period of operation of an agreement prior to notification . |
| 30 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |