Example sentences of "not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ 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 . |
| 32 | It came about not for economic reasons but as a consequence of complex political processes . |
| 33 | You never could tell , not for sure . |
| 34 | ‘ I know not for sure . |
| 35 | Not for sure . |
| 36 | ‘ No , not for sure . |
| 37 | Not for sure no |
| 38 | Liability is imposed for defective goods , not for defective land . |
| 39 | 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 ! |
| 40 | They are not for genteel walkers . |
| 41 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 42 | I discovered it was to become a community centre — but not for eighteen months . |
| 43 | Not for 100 people , or 30 or 40 people , ’ she said . |
| 44 | A LATE penalty against a local team in the French Championship is not for faint-of-heart referees . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Government Departments can , however , under the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , be sued for the recovery of property , for breach of an ordinary commercial contract , but not for that of a contract of service , a contract dependent upon a future grant of money by parliament , nor , it seems , one in which the Crown purports to fetter its own future executive action , or for a tort . |
| 47 | ‘ Not for that hoor ! ’ he snarled . |
| 48 | ‘ Not for that Judas ! |
| 49 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 50 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 51 | It was created for the benefit of the inhabitants of the territory , not for that of the parties to the agreement . |
| 52 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 53 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 54 | Is that not for that either ? |
| 55 | And was one of them not for that and my neck ? |
| 56 | It 's not for that it 's for |
| 57 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ No , not for that , mother . ’ |
| 59 | " Not for that . " |
| 60 | Well I mean , everybody goes to Robert does their off shore survival which takes you into helicopter survival and l launching lifeboats off the platform and life rafts ev and er that done I mean you get your certificates and what not for that and everybody is to get refresher courses every two or three years , I 'm not really sure which . |