Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grass is not perfectly balanced for all types of horses all year round either . |
| 2 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 3 | It would also appear that the traditional British fleet had not previously fished for those stocks and was at that time still unable to exploit them fully . |
| 4 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 5 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 6 | These time-budget studies , as they are known , reveal that the amount of time that housewives spend on housework has not significantly changed for several decades . |
| 7 | There , she had n't actually asked for any favours . |