Example sentences of "was not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not for professional designers . ’ |
| 3 | The first principle reiterates a point made earlier : although they favoured reform rather than punishment , this was not for humanitarian reasons . |
| 4 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 8 | The home was not for most a country house or a cottage , but a town villa or tenement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |
| 11 | The cutting down of the scrub was merely to facilitate the minimal use by the goats — it was not for any wider purpose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My daughter would not be here if it was not for orthodox medicine but I do believe her condition has been improved by homeopathy . ’ |
| 14 | It was not for English to supplant classics as a vehicle for elite socialization . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 20 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |