Example sentences of "n't for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was n't for want of trying . |
| 2 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 3 | But Stirling is n't for instance , they 'll want to consider their pantomime again |
| 4 | Sometimes I was lucky , sometimes I was n't for instance , if anybody came to the enquiry after the report that the theft of a bicycle from outside the library . |
| 5 | Footnote : The Greatest Living Irishman never got to pat the knee of the Greatest Living Human Being , but it was n't for lack of trying . |
| 6 | But I did n't go to the altar ; to be honest it was n't for lack of offers , but because they always seemed to come from people I would n't have been caught dead at an altar with . |
| 7 | A legion of schoolgirls would dearly like to take up that offer — if it was n't for Marci . |
| 8 | The government guidance er in P G three makes it very clear now that it 's an issue we do have to address and if we do n't for land requirement . |
| 9 | ‘ If it was n't for art , ’ said Robert , ‘ we would n't be about to eat . ’ |
| 10 | The pages ( 990 of them ) are full of helpful screen diagrams but I missed the ‘ idiot 's ’ step by step command style that I 've convinced myself I need in a manual — but then Windows 3.1 secrets is n't FOR idiot 's . |
| 11 | It certainly was n't for sex . ’ |
| 12 | So if you cut your toenails do n't leave them lying around on the floor , do n't make too much noise if you have to use the slop bucket at night and if you 're a shit-stabber then I 'll tell you now , my arsehole is n't for rent . |
| 13 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 14 | ‘ If it were n't for tetherball , I think we both would have died of boredom ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to know where you 'd be now if it was n't for Father 's African interests . |
| 16 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 17 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 18 | What no one could have bought , what was n't for sale at any price , was Alison 's way with the place . |
| 19 | We ai n't for sale . ’ |
| 20 | Manningham had said he was n't for sale , but he might consider double the figure offered . |
| 21 | But I 'm terribly sorry , you see , because he just is n't for sale . ’ |
| 22 | She wanted to say that her conscience was n't for sale ; but she lacked the nerve . |
| 23 | I could n't see why the man kept it in the shop if it was n't for sale . |
| 24 | Fraser said : ‘ I told Tommy that Ferguson was n't for sale . |
| 25 | erm It does n't for example necessarily imply that statements about beauty are merely subjective , or are delusory or are soft-headed or Though maybe Ayer would want to say that on another occasion . |