Example sentences of "[pron] was not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 2 | Yesterday he was fined £500 for supplying a film which was not for distribution and ordered to pay overall costs of £1,000 . |
| 3 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 4 | He had withdrawn early with his guests , for they were bent on leaving next morning , and their business with him was not for the openness of the hall . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 8 | It was not for nothing that he was chosen as Mr Squeaky Clean after the sexual and financial aberrations of his two predecessors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Since George always did the arriving early and the saving of places , it was not for him to complain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | It was not for me to tell him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance . |
| 19 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it was not for her ; |
| 23 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 24 | It was not for them but for the ruling CPP to decide what best promoted the goals Nkrumah outlined . |
| 25 | For example where the handbrake of a motor car is released and the car is allowed to run down a hill by itself the offence under section 12 would not be committed as it was not for his or another 's use . |
| 26 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 27 | It sustained her when the pain inside her became near-unbearable , and it was not for sharing . |
| 28 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 29 | Housewife Rita Davis , of Ilford , Essex , said : ‘ We would never have known what our taxes are going on if it was not for the Mirror . ’ |
| 30 | Nearly two years ago , I saw the type of package that really interested me BUT , of course , it was not for my computer . |