Example sentences of "[not/n't] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing is for the track not for the road . |
| 2 | Special care he reserved for his own wife and not for the Mrs Strawsons of this world . |
| 3 | Suppose you present a surface dyslexic with the stimulus frays and ask , not for the word to be read aloud , but for the patient to say what the word means . |
| 4 | But is it a dialogue , or does each blackbird whistle for itself and not for the other ? |
| 5 | I am therefore not convinced that the distinction is a sufficient basis for concluding that the Secretary of State is bound by the judicial view for one class of case , but not for the other . |
| 6 | Yet if a naso-temporal difference exists for one eye but not for the other , the set-up is not balanced with respect to left and right visual fields . |
| 7 | If I do n't deliver the goods , I do n't get any money , In business you get paid for results , not for the hours you put in . ’ |
| 8 | It was originally written in Hebrew , and therefore not for the perusal of the Gentiles . |
| 9 | It is not for the want of trying . |
| 10 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 11 | We do have the Wolfe report but unfortunately not for the want of effort , the Wolfe report is turning out like the Black report and others and I do n't say that because there was a gentleman who done a report Black and it is gathering dust , the Wolfe report is on the same shelf , I believe . |
| 12 | This was , when all is said and done , class legislation : enacted by one class for the betterment of its lower brethren ; not for the correction of its own bad habits . |
| 13 | But not for the cognoscenti . |
| 14 | Yes , of course I am disgruntled , but not for the reasons you may adduce . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , ’ I said again , and I was too , but not for the reasons the proctologist believed . |
| 16 | This has happened in a number of developed countries — though not for the reasons given by Marx but primarily because of the growth of government and restrictive practices in labour markets . |
| 17 | The usages objected to as ‘ anti-male ’ are certainly sexist , but not for the reasons some men seem to think . |
| 18 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 19 | But not for the reasons some had feared . |
| 20 | ‘ Not for the reasons you imagine , Sarella . ’ |
| 21 | If not for the help of the librarian she might not even have found the book . |
| 22 | The Crown made one last attempt to revive the Forest law and the Forest courts , not for the preservation of the king 's hunting rights , but to promote the production of timber . |
| 23 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 24 | The biggest cheer in this race , however , was not for the winner , it was for Barry Wright , who finished last of the four on top weight Midnight Madness . |
| 25 | The druidical temple which Johnson saw would have proved extremely difficult for me to find , were it not for the presence in Strichen of one of the most useful guiding systems on earth — a group of local schoolboys idling on their bicycles . |
| 26 | The opposite side of the argument is that in task allocation people may not receive appropriate care at appropriate times and that the day is succession of minor interruptions , made for the convenience of the organisation and not for the benefit of individuals . |
| 27 | Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people . |
| 28 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 29 | The director of a company has a duty to carry on the business of that company in all respects in good faith for the benefit of that company and not for the benefit of other group companies . |
| 30 | Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ? |