Example sentences of "[verb] not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 2 | They will be designed not for any particular proportion of the ability range but for all candidates whatever their ability relative to other candidates who are able to reach the standards required for the award of particular grades in each subject . |
| 3 | They are designed not for experimentation but for implementation . |
| 4 | The most important of these are on huge pots , designed not for use but to stand on graves . |
| 5 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 6 | The Royal Academy score , then , is that of the original version : copied before ( though only just before ) The Fairy Queen started its first run , and used not for rehearsals — there are no signs of wear and tear — but as a master from which the parts were prepared . |
| 7 | Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames . |
| 8 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 9 | But the preponderance of evidence about the computer business shows that the IBM name no longer has its old magic … and it has n't for the past few years . |
| 10 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 11 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 12 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 13 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 14 | It involved the acceptance of a vocation to be undertaken not for money but from a sense of duty . |
| 15 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 16 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 17 | He fought not for honour or glory but to put an end to the threat of Naggaroth for all time . |
| 18 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 19 | My constituents who are in prison — I hope not for too long — are becoming increasingly disaffected . |
| 20 | Galileo 's comment was that though the Bible was the word of God it must not be taken too literally , word for word , being written not for intellectuals but for common people . |
| 21 | For all its relevance and cleverness , you ca n't get around the fact that this book was written not for a generation but for a media eager to snap up fresh-tasting morsels . |
| 22 | My relationship with the director is therefore rather different from most producers ; I am looking not for someone to watch and admire but for someone who can deliver the result . |
| 23 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 24 | He was looking not for a new policy for Britain , but for a political protege for himself , someone who would be more gracious and romantic than Chamberlain . |
| 25 | He must no doubt be acting not for the mere purpose of putting money in his pocket , but for some legitimate purpose other than the mere acquisition of money … … . |
| 26 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 27 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 28 | Their cinema was purer because they were often more fully in charge of their product than were other film-makers working on serious movies , because comedy encouraged a more direct relationship between technique and content , and because the films were made not for any sectional audience but for the mass audience itself . |
| 29 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 30 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |