Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 2 | Indeed , not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Not for that Judas ! |
| 7 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not for that sort of er thing , no . |
| 12 | ‘ Not for that hoor ! ’ he snarled . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 14 | Exercise 6 suggests a method for dealing with the case where the LP is unbounded or infeasible at θ = 0 , but not for all values of 0 . |
| 15 | Yet the Mani is not for all tastes . |
| 16 | He stressed that the CP would continue to demand a whites-only general election , and that " this is not the end of the political war " ; the CP would recognize the referendum result " as the actual situation , but not for all eternity " . |
| 17 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 18 | ‘ Their pride is not for each other , it 's for themselves . |
| 19 | Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language . |
| 20 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 21 | Kinnock is resolutely of his place — principled , passionate , sentimental — and , by that token , he is not for these times . |
| 22 | When Dorothea Shottery awoke , she could not remember what day it was , not for several minutes . |
| 23 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 24 | The disk surface is also normally of high quality and is unlikely to shed its magnetic layer , at least not for several years . |
| 25 | Sharp Corp is also thought to be working on a similar tack , though not for this year . |
| 26 | cos there not for this board are they ? |
| 27 | Not for this boy . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , it 's not for this boy . |
| 29 | Because yes , we did say we were n't going to use tropical markets , erm perhaps in the view of some of the things Bob Plumtree 's been saying , perhaps that was a little bit premature , perhaps we would want for some countries tropical woods , might want to reconsider , but erm I think that 's something for the future , that 's not for this afternoon . |
| 30 | But not for this child ! |