Example sentences of "not for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece . |
| 2 | They would look incongruous , like far-flung gouchos , were it not for their high-stepping Icelandic ponies . |
| 3 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 4 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 5 | Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard . |
| 6 | It was one of the tragedies of the Second Empire that Napoleon III and Eugénie who were fond , perhaps over-fond , parents whose joy lay in their child , should be remembered not for their family virtues but for their public ‘ vices ’ — real or supposed . |
| 7 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 8 | If Waugh and Orwell did not exactly despise the complexities of Modernism , Joyce-style or Eliot-style , at least they recognised , and early , that such complexities were not for their times and not for them . |
| 9 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 10 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 11 | At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life . |
| 12 | They must play a major part in developing , using and controlling the new technology , not for their own benefit , but for the sake of the children they teach . |
| 13 | They are put to work for their hands , not for their minds or imaginations . |
| 14 | Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that are required not for their calorific value , which is negligible , but because they help regulate the body 's metabolism . |
| 15 | It 's not for their |
| 16 | The National Health Insurance Act of 1911 provided access to a general practitioner for all insured workers , male and female , but not for their dependants , who were mainly women and children . |
| 17 | Not only does the 24-hour delivery time achieved week in week out put most publishers to shame , but if it were not for their buyers ' notes and regular representative visits , we as a small bookshop all too often ignored by publishers — The Bookseller apart , whose efforts are also appreciated — would not be made aware of new titles and promotions . |
| 18 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 19 | To summarize the message of this chapter , genes are selected , not for their intrinsic qualities , but by virtue of their interactions with their environments . |
| 20 | Commodities are purchased not for their use values but as signs and symbols to emphasise personal and social distinctiveness . |
| 21 | ’ I 'm using them because we work so well together not for their names . |
| 22 | The unskilled or raw immigrants from the countryside were proud of their strength , and came from an environment where hard labour was the criterion of a person 's worth and wives were chosen not for their looks but for their work-potential . |