Example sentences of "was not for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That secret self which he drew on , and which he would draw out and test as time went on , was not for public display unless Burton willed it . |
| 4 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |
| 5 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |
| 6 | My daughter would not be here if it was not for orthodox medicine but I do believe her condition has been improved by homeopathy . ’ |
| 7 | It was not for this reason alone , fundamental though it is , that Phyllis Deane has written of canals that they were " of the essence of the industrial revolution " . |
| 8 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 9 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |