Example sentences of "not for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 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 | I lived with them , not for nine years , but for a while . |
| 5 | Not for nine months , if then . |
| 6 | Cancun is not for hardened travellers . |
| 7 | The Black Cuillin are not for ordinary mortals . |
| 8 | ‘ Please note that if I commit suicide today … it is not for economic reasons ( for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means , even refusing jobs ) but for political reasons . |
| 9 | It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes . |
| 10 | They are not for genteel walkers . |
| 11 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 12 | I discovered it was to become a community centre — but not for eighteen months . |
| 13 | A LATE penalty against a local team in the French Championship is not for faint-of-heart referees . |
| 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 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 17 | These would eventually identify the abandoned Volvo , but not for two weeks . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Not for two years had Tomba won in Italy . |
| 20 | She had never felt so vulnerable , not for two years . |
| 21 | Although he was still charged with assault , the trial was not for two months , which gave her time to wait and discuss it with Charles once he was completely recovered . |
| 22 | The three great defectors , Nureyev ( 1961 ) , Makarova ( 1970 ) and Baryshnikov ( 1974 ) came West not for political reasons as such but because Russian dance was in a straitjacket . |
| 23 | ‘ For farmers perhaps , ’ Fournier said , ‘ not for young men with theories . ’ |
| 24 | Charles Keeping 's illustrations are clearly not for young children but for older children who are , among other things , coming to terms with violence and cruelty in our age . |
| 25 | Well , on the news just now the speculation was that the dosh is needed to pay for the refurbishment of the ground and not for new players . |
| 26 | However , Mr Hassell did end on a positive note — at least for leasing , if not for other forms of business finance . |
| 27 | people who discussed politics more during the campaign gave personal conversations a somewhat higher rating for providing information on the issues , but not for other purposes . |
| 28 | In Germany , municipal waste can be landfilled only after being sorted and processed ; in France , tough new landfill standards have recently been introduced ; in Britain , higher standards for new landfills ( although not for existing ones ) are being introduced under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 29 | C3 , C4 and C5 — For the complete areas of study but not for individual elements |
| 30 | A novelist like Fielding , who is on familiar terms with the other nation ( he married his deceased wife 's maid and friend , Mary Daniel ) , may sometimes take his gentlemen into such rooms , but not for moral reasons : Molly Seagrim 's narrow garret , shaped like the great delta of the Greeks , is a setting for sexual comedy , not social concern . |