Example sentences of "[pron] not for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And was one of them not for that and my neck ?
2 A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’
3 cos there not for this board are they ?
4 Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive .
5 Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’
6 Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered .
7 Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language .
8 Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language .
9 Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken .
10 We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision .
11 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 .
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