Example sentences of "not for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not not for normal talk . |
| 2 | But , please , not for twentieth century media conferences . |
| 3 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 4 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 5 | This may have held good in the palmy days of the 1960s for some authorities , but even then not for many ( see Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival . |
| 7 | He would n't be able to follow , not for many , many minutes ; too many cars blocked his way , parked haphazardly . |
| 8 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 9 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I can answer that — not for certain . |
| 11 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 12 | I could n't say where he spent that evening , not for certain . |
| 13 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 14 | They force the listener to be aware it 's not for real . |
| 15 | Not for real ! ’ |
| 16 | But not for real , I hasten to point out . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not for real Stuart . |
| 18 | Towards the latter part of the first century , Rome 's presiding cleric named Clement wrote on behalf of his church to remonstrate with the Corinthian Christians who had ejected clergy without either financial or charismatic endowment in favour of a fresh lot ; Clement apologized not for intervening but for not having acted sooner . |
| 19 | I lived with them , not for nine years , but for a while . |
| 20 | Not for nine months , if then . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Definition : Investment is the production of or expenditure by firms on goods and services which are not for current consumption : that is , real capital goods , like factories , machines , bridges and motorways , all goods which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in future periods . |
| 23 | The improvement may only be apparent ( or pseudo ) if , in addition , the increase in real output per capita is accompanied by negative externalities or is caused by increased production of goods and services which are not for current consumption . |
| 24 | It is firms ' spending on goods which are not for current consumption but which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in the future . |
| 25 | Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt : |
| 26 | Cancun is not for hardened travellers . |
| 27 | This is ideal for thick yarns and pile knitting , but not for ordinary work . |
| 28 | The Black Cuillin are not for ordinary mortals . |
| 29 | The story of mud is one of a resource that has been excluded not for technical but for social reasons . |
| 30 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |