Example sentences of "not for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do things for the fell of it and not for some kind of career motive . |
| 2 | Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life . |
| 3 | Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class . |
| 4 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 5 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 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 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 10 | ‘ Not for some time , Chieh Hsia . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
| 13 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |