Example sentences of "not [verb] for such " in BNC.

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1	In theory , you can convert a road shoe to cross-country shoe or vice versa , but as midsoles and uppers are not designed for such changes , it would not always to wise to try to .
2	‘ Hurry , Wolfprince , for my work does not wait for such as you , ’ he said in his sibilant whisper , but now Nuadu detected a lick of pleasure in the voice .
3	Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
4	Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status .
5	As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business .
6	The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron .
7	The consent of the seller is not needed for such an assignment .
8	She retired quickly after her friend into the kitchen , overcome by a sense of invaded privacy ; a garden , to her , was not meant for such intimacies .
9	Even she had not bargained for such an insult as this !
10	Living persons are not fitted for such transmission , and even the dead must be guaranteed by their " solid achievement " ( political , literary , military , or other ) .
11	It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times .

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