Example sentences of "[adv] not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 2 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 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 | Hopefully not for good . |
| 5 | Charles Keeping 's illustrations are clearly not for young children but for older children who are , among other things , coming to terms with violence and cruelty in our age . |
| 6 | Now not for one moment is this to suggest that the West Indian pace attack are a bunch of big girls . |
| 7 | Or did do mind you I I would n't think it now not for younger folk that 's not the case but for the older folk it very much worse . |
| 8 | Customers will continue to ask for more — maybe not for higher prices . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe not for that alone , but you 've certainly been a big draw , ’ the other woman said . |
| 10 | This may have held good in the palmy days of the 1960s for some authorities , but even then not for many ( see Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 12 | As it turns out , those particular Snakes were never in the cards , at least not for this month . |
| 13 | The disk surface is also normally of high quality and is unlikely to shed its magnetic layer , at least not for several years . |
| 14 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 15 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 16 | It was certainly not for general release to the public . |
| 17 | I was never unduly ambitious , certainly not for financial or personal gain , but I have always felt compelled to strive for progress , which is perhaps the urge of all creative people . |
| 18 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 19 | The erasure was probably not the result of weathering , because Mercury has probably never possessed a significant atmosphere and certainly not for any length of time . |