Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 2 | If it can teach us that love is the most powerful force in the world , we shall not have lived for nothing . |
| 3 | Charles will still sit on the throne and Diana , with whom he will not have lived for years , will be crowned beside him . |
| 4 | What canals , bridges and noble roads would it not have made for us ? ’ |
| 5 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 6 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 7 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 8 | This would not have served for vaults , and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances . |
| 9 | Yes , it was true he need not have wanted for female companionship over the past months . |
| 10 | Again , he could not have stayed for long as in 1680 he was back preaching in Mauchline . |
| 11 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 12 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 13 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 14 | If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household . |
| 15 | ‘ You would not have asked for Lina unless you liked the old lady . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I could not have asked for anymore from my players tonight . |
| 17 | ‘ He would not have survived for much longer in the Arctic conditions , ’ said a spokesman for Gwent Police . |
| 18 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 19 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 20 | There was nothing he could have asked of her that she would not have done for him . |
| 21 | If hypertension has been neglected in the diabetic care of the past , lipids might not have existed for the attention they have received . |
| 22 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 23 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 24 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 25 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 26 | the multiplier was reduced from 15 years to 11 years to reflect the fact that the marriage might not have lasted for the whole of the natural life of the deceased . |
| 27 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 28 | In a democracy , the elected member is entrusted with duties towards all persons in his constituency irrespective of the fact that they may not have voted for him . |
| 29 | Even Maxton could not have worked for long with the Communists whose infiltration he had done so much to resist . |
| 30 | Housing benefit was never payable in addition to income support , but was used in place of it by people who would not have qualified for income support , such as people living in a room run by a close relative , the long-term disabled and various other categories of people under pensionable age who were not eligible . |