Example sentences of "[verb] not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be designed not for any particular proportion of the ability range but for all candidates whatever their ability relative to other candidates who are able to reach the standards required for the award of particular grades in each subject . |
| 2 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 3 | Their cinema was purer because they were often more fully in charge of their product than were other film-makers working on serious movies , because comedy encouraged a more direct relationship between technique and content , and because the films were made not for any sectional audience but for the mass audience itself . |
| 4 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |
| 5 | That we look not for detailed application of single techniques in a piecemeal fashion , but rather that we look for the general developments from which we can build school specific approaches which translate the experience into usable school practice . |
| 6 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 7 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 8 | This time there was no mistake made , he was known , and killed not for another , but for himself . ’ |
| 9 | The most common varieties of this system ( commonly used in other member states of the European Community and in some elections in Northern Ireland ) are the single transferable vote system ( under which primary votes of the least successful candidates are progressively redistributed to the more successful ) and the list-system , under the simplest variety of which votes are cast not for particular candidates , but for parties , the ‘ list ’ of whose candidates will benefit proportionately to the party 's overall vote . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only now has ground-breaking been announced not for this summer but for next and ribbon-cutting projected for the autumn of 1995 . |
| 12 | It is precisely in confused situations , after all , as travellers on the London Underground know , that people need clear maps , and the complexities of modern civilisation call not for literary difficulty but for literary clarity . |
| 13 | Providing copious statistics for the numbers of bombers dispatched , those that reached their targets and those that did not for one reason or another , this book is a complete overview of a major aspect of the air war against mainland Germany . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Those who founded it do not for one moment pretend to be neutral , ’ Lewis confessed . |
| 16 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 17 | The story of mud is one of a resource that has been excluded not for technical but for social reasons . |
| 18 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 19 | Lucy did n't for one moment think that she could trick him or trip him , but knew that he 'd see her as young and naive and so might just let her get away with a little more . |
| 20 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 21 | But do n't for one moment feel you 're fickle if you change your perfume constantly , on a whim . |
| 22 | But do n't for one moment think that Munich should be left solely for the more seriously-minded visitor . |
| 23 | A letter dated March 2nd already betrays some misgiving through its protestation : ‘ I do n't for one minute doubt about the fall of Verdun . ’ |
| 24 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 25 | If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration . |
| 26 | The hard core of support seemed to have risen slightly during the year , but voting Green in the Euro-elections had not for most of the voters signified a new allegiance . |
| 27 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 28 | But each archaeological site is unique , and once destroyed , it can not be replaced : the information it contained is lost not for 1,000 years or so , but forever . |
| 29 | If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound . |
| 30 | ( See NOT for more details ) . |