Example sentences of "not for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not not for normal talk . |
| 2 | But , please , not for twentieth century media conferences . |
| 3 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 4 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 5 | Indeed , not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's not for real Stuart . |
| 8 | I lived with them , not for nine years , but for a while . |
| 9 | Not for nine months , if then . |
| 10 | Definition : Investment is the production of or expenditure by firms on goods and services which are not for current consumption : that is , real capital goods , like factories , machines , bridges and motorways , all goods which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in future periods . |
| 11 | The improvement may only be apparent ( or pseudo ) if , in addition , the increase in real output per capita is accompanied by negative externalities or is caused by increased production of goods and services which are not for current consumption . |
| 12 | It is firms ' spending on goods which are not for current consumption but which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in the future . |
| 13 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 14 | Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt : |
| 15 | Cancun is not for hardened travellers . |
| 16 | This is ideal for thick yarns and pile knitting , but not for ordinary work . |
| 17 | The Black Cuillin are not for ordinary mortals . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes . |
| 20 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 21 | Liability is imposed for defective goods , not for defective land . |
| 22 | It would be even nicer to think he was trying to make her jealous because he still cared for her and not for pure spite , and it would be nice if she sobered up and faced life 's harsh realities ! |
| 23 | They are not for genteel walkers . |
| 24 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 25 | I discovered it was to become a community centre — but not for eighteen months . |
| 26 | Not for 100 people , or 30 or 40 people , ’ she said . |
| 27 | A LATE penalty against a local team in the French Championship is not for faint-of-heart referees . |
| 28 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Not for that Judas ! |