Example sentences of "[pron] not for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 2 | And was one of them not for that and my neck ? |
| 3 | Its strengths are power and precision , but its not for the faint-hearted |
| 4 | so its not for your man and its not for society and its not for |
| 5 | so its not for your man and its not for society and its not for |
| 6 | so its not for your man and its not for society and its not for |
| 7 | no its not for my husband cos my husband says you look nice whether I 've got make up on or whether I have n't got make up on so really |
| 8 | I do , because its not for vainty 's sake , I do feel at times going upstairs or |
| 9 | Adrian Jones of Laser … says its easy to sail … its not for the beginner but the club sailor will be able to handle it … he says it gives the opportunity for the normal man or girl in the street to sail together in a powerful boat … all the boats will be exactly the same … it means that the best sailor will win … |
| 10 | ‘ Are ye not for a wee something after ? ’ queried Jim , taking his apron off . |
| 11 | Are you not for privatization ? |
| 12 | there for you not for him . |
| 13 | soft and fresh for you not for ducks . |
| 14 | cos there not for this board are they ? |
| 15 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 16 | Men were wrong about Prince Richard ; women loved him not for his strength , but for his weakness , which was well hidden . |
| 17 | Charles Wesley congratulated himself in 1744 that as a consequence of his having preached against wrestling on his visit to Cornwall in the preceding year , the village of Gwennap had been unable to find enough men for their next contest , " all the Gwennap men being struck off the Devil 's list , and found wrestling against him not for him " . |
| 18 | Are they not for the er class room windows ? |
| 19 | If that stage has not been reached at the end of the formal application processes it it' not for me to judge now what the Department 'll do . |
| 20 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 21 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 22 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 24 | All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) . |
| 25 | Many would dismiss Peter Thompson 's pessimism out of hand were it not for the fact that he was the author of a paper in July 1987 , when the market was at its pre-crash high , called ‘ The End of the Long Bull Market ’ . |
| 26 | This might plausibly be dismissed as ‘ Victorian stupidity ’ were it not for the tact that in Britain in 1988 a similar view was actually inscribed in law . |
| 27 | They would look incongruous , like far-flung gouchos , were it not for their high-stepping Icelandic ponies . |
| 28 | Encased in pile and nylon , hoods drawn tight , it would be easy to forget the world in a welter of sensations , were it not for the running commentary that Tove keeps up . |
| 29 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 30 | Were it not for the support of sympathetic friends , the residents in our Homes and those who work in our factory could not be given the necessary help and encouragement to overcome their handicap , for we are dependent on voluntary help . |