Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [not/n't] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I do n't think so not for what they , what they , they want . |
| 2 | It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes . |
| 3 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 4 | He is probably widely remembered today not for his important contributions to number theory , but as the teacher of Albert Einstein and the man who showed how the theory of relativity could be interpreted as the geometry of four-dimensional spacetime . |
| 5 | But we 've worked-not wanted-not for what we 've got . |