Example sentences of "not for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 2 | This may have held good in the palmy days of the 1960s for some authorities , but even then not for many ( see Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival . |
| 4 | He would n't be able to follow , not for many , many minutes ; too many cars blocked his way , parked haphazardly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Government Departments can , however , under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , be sued for the recovery of property , for breach of an ordinary commercial contract , but not for that of a contract of service , a contract dependent upon a future grant of money by parliament , nor , it seems , one in which the Crown purports to fetter its own future executive action , or for a tort . |
| 9 | ‘ Not for that hoor ! ’ he snarled . |
| 10 | ‘ Not for that Judas ! |
| 11 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 12 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 13 | It was created for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory , not for that of the parties to the agreement . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 15 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 16 | Is that not for that either ? |
| 17 | And was one of them not for that and my neck ? |
| 18 | It 's not for that it 's for |
| 19 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No , not for that , mother . ’ |
| 21 | " Not for that . " |
| 22 | Well I mean , everybody goes to Robert does their off shore survival which takes you into helicopter survival and l launching lifeboats off the platform and life rafts ev and er that done I mean you get your certificates and what not for that and everybody is to get refresher courses every two or three years , I 'm not really sure which . |
| 23 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 24 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe not for that alone , but you 've certainly been a big draw , ’ the other woman said . |
| 27 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 28 | You know , they wan na not for that , that you know , a couple of hours you keep a kid amused by well a |
| 29 | But not for that . |
| 30 | No I meant er not for that , for er |