Example sentences of "[verb] not for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only now has ground-breaking been announced not for this summer but for next and ribbon-cutting projected for the autumn of 1995 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Those who founded it do not for one moment pretend to be neutral , ’ Lewis confessed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( See NOT for more details ) . |
| 15 | ( See NOT for more details . ) |
| 16 | ( See NOT for more details . ) |