Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now suggested that ‘ he does n't know anything about politics ’ — in effect , that he is not medically qualified for his spin-doctoring consultancy . |
| 2 | She also wrote to her brother , whom she had mostly but not altogether forgiven for his betrayal of her to her mother . |
| 3 | His distribution contract did not expressly provide for him to be personally involved in the distribution although his personal involvement was appreciated . |
| 4 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 5 | It need hardly be added that the examiner always wants reasons and authorities for the answer , even though he does not expressly ask for them . |
| 6 | The judge concluded that since rule 4.4(4) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991did not expressly provide for the making of an application ex parte for a residence order and since section 9(5) of the Children Act 1989 prohibited him from making either a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order to achieve that result he had no jurisdiction to make the orders sought . |
| 7 | The Act formalizes certain procedures not expressly provided for in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 8 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 9 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 10 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 11 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 13 | They were not properly cared for , and by May this year there was widespread malnutrition in the camps — despite the fact that the UNHCR provided for an assumed 600,000 refugees , almost double the true number . |
| 14 | HOSPITAL officials have pledged to investigate allegations that a 90-year-old patient was not properly cared for while she waited for an operation . |
| 15 | Very popular in the USA , this vinegar is produced by the acetification of grape must ( new wine not properly fermented for drinking ) , which is concentrated and then aged in wooden barrels . |
| 16 | And finally — Editor Steve Windsor is not widely known for his psychic powers , but it does seem some of his predictions come true . |
| 17 | Although the process was not widely practised for forty years , the discovery was the crucial step in the mass production of iron for industry , and facilitated the development of the steam engine . |
| 18 | It is not widely used for research outside the military because of the cost of high fidelity simulator time . |
| 19 | At £145 ( + VAT , of course ) it is not badly priced for its power , and gives other packages a run for their money , including its big brother ! |
| 20 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
| 21 | The audience , too , was painfully hungry and yet in the presence of food which was not apparently destined for their stomachs ; this made them feel weak and peevish . |
| 22 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |
| 23 | In other words , agricultural produce coming into Mallia was not all destined for the temple : some at least was going into private houses , presumably town houses belonging to the owners of estates in the countryside around Mallia . |
| 24 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 25 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 26 | This disjunctive , unfinished quality challenges readers to establish an order which the text does not entirely provide for them . |
| 27 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 28 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 29 | ‘ He does not greatly care for it , but I need its solitude if I am to accomplish what I am about . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I know you do not greatly care for her , Edwin . |