Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 3 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 4 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dane , did I hurt your macho pride by not sticking around for more ? |
| 6 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 7 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 8 | We can predict statistically how the atoms and photons will behave , but we can not predict accurately for each one of them — and , afterwards , we can not tell how each of them has behaved unless we look . |
| 9 | She had not come here for that ; it was another problem that she must take on , but not now , not here . |
| 10 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 11 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 12 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 13 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 14 | Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years . |
| 15 | The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years . |
| 16 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 17 | They should not look actively for these behaviours : rather they should wait till they come to their attention before recording them . |
| 18 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 19 | These fag-ends did not augur well for any public announcement that might be made . |
| 20 | Coercion is not needed today for most people in these areas , for the evolution of mankind has led to the internalization of these prohibitions ; the super-ego , which develops in most children in modern societies , controls these . |
| 21 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 22 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 23 | she was in this hospita , the , the City Hospital in Chester which is not used now for that . |
| 24 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 25 | we 're not waiting now for any afflatus |
| 26 | Jessie did not return home for several hours . |
| 27 | I 'm just not cut out for this . |
| 28 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 29 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 30 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |