Example sentences of "was not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 2 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 3 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 4 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 5 | This was not for lack of punitive methods . |
| 6 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The biggest cheer in this race , however , was not for the winner , it was for Barry Wright , who finished last of the four on top weight Midnight Madness . |
| 8 | It was not for the Government to pull the plug on a venture which was running and had cost Mr Murdoch ‘ vast amounts of money ’ . |
| 9 | Since George always did the arriving early and the saving of places , it was not for him to complain . |
| 10 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 11 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 12 | A small proportion of the boys — seven per cent — wanted to be fatter , but ‘ it would seem their desire to be heavier was not for fatness but for a more athletic and muscular build ’ . |
| 13 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 14 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
| 15 | Her sense of gratitude was not for God 's gifts , but for her own virtues . |
| 16 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 17 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 18 | It was not for me to tell him . |
| 19 | The first thing I had to learn was that my parents ' use of guilt was not for my benefit but for theirs . |
| 20 | The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored . |
| 21 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 22 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 23 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 24 | The unhappiness was not for the shop , but for a lady who was employed by Mr Bacon on a part-time basis , and the lady was my aunt Mary . |
| 25 | This was not for my protection , but for hers . |
| 26 | It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance . |
| 27 | But Meg , it might be that he had stole her cubs , was not for his surrender . |
| 28 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 29 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 30 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |