Example sentences of "not for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 2 | Alton has been put first by alphabetical chance , not for preference . |
| 3 | A former DIA agent , for instance , had confirmed the involvement of the US intelligence community in narcotics trafficking , but not for attribution . |
| 4 | His betrayal of Nicola Hammond ought to have annoyed her — not for Nicola 's sake , but because she was reminded of risks she 'd taken ; of risks she might have to take . |
| 5 | The Royal Academy score , then , is that of the original version : copied before ( though only just before ) The Fairy Queen started its first run , and used not for rehearsals — there are no signs of wear and tear — but as a master from which the parts were prepared . |
| 6 | In normal neonates , fixation shifts and OKN have both been taken to reflect subcortical control ; our results are consistent with subcortical control for fixation but not for OKN . |
| 7 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 8 | This is the place to turn back ; the cave continues further for almost a mile but is definitely not for beginners . |
| 9 | And , not for beginners . |
| 10 | Apparently it was all right to receive money from the Treasury in neat health authority allocations , but not for cheques or , worse still , cash to appear over the hospital counter . |
| 11 | But not for Bacon , who spoke of final causes as barren virgins . |
| 12 | Not for Caliban . |
| 13 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 14 | Not for want of me trying . |
| 15 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 16 | This is not for want of official concern by education commissions , curriculum projects and national ministries . |
| 17 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 18 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 21 | It 's not for want of trying . ’ |
| 22 | It is not for want of trying on the part of The International Tennis Federation . |
| 23 | It is not for want of encouragement . |
| 24 | Maxwell came quite late to newspapers , though not for want of trying : in 1968 , for instance , he was a loser in the battle for the News of the World . |
| 25 | Though he was to fail in his exploitation of this , it was not for want of seeking to undermine national self-confidence through sardonic innuendo or weaken the will to resist by boasts of the invincible military initiative now held by the Wehrmacht . |
| 26 | This position as ‘ also attending ’ in the daily panoply of style was not for want of effort : ‘ the Dedicated Follower of Fashion ’ was no sartorial doormat ; but it was acceptable and expected that the female , complete with which ever secondary sexual characteristic was currently ‘ in ’ , should be the object of absolute scrutiny . |
| 27 | An impression is provided by Fuller : " I am sorry to hear and loath to believe , what some credible persons have told me , that within these 20 years the copper within this country hath beet , wholly discontinued , and that not for want of metal , but mining it . |
| 28 | I regret that there is n't a man here who would uphold the opposite point of view and it 's not for want of trying . |
| 29 | But , says Ann , it 's not for want of trying . |
| 30 | Much better as women to put our energies elsewhere and to think in terms of guerilla action — to redistribute resources to women wherever possible ; to asset-strip men 's buildings of their space and facilities and resources on behalf of women ; to expose male hypocrisy , corruption and oppression wherever it appears ; to reserve loyalty for principles and for women not for institutions ; and to concentrate on the subversion of men 's ideas about themselves and about women by behaving badly and with irreverence to their rules . |