Example sentences of "not for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Not for the faint-hearted . |
| 2 | Not for the novice , but still worth attempting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her patience in equally short supply , she found herself exasperated , not for the first time , by Peony 's snide tongue . |
| 6 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 7 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 8 | To break away , to London , a bedsit , a rather cozy bedsit , laughter and plonk , moaning in the staffroom , and laughter , and exhaustion , and nothing , nothing achieved , not for the kids , not by me . |
| 9 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 10 | It 's usually 95 degrees and humid , so it 's not for the lighthearted . ’ |
| 11 | In this case it appears that the bolts have been placed , not for the purpose of protection , but to create an artificial gangway . |
| 12 | If you caused a flood by knocking a nail through a water pipe , the flood section would cover you for damage caused by the water , but not for the damage to the pipe . |
| 13 | Yet to study literature , or poetry , in the hope of achieving these effects is perverse , like playing a game , not for the pleasure of the game , but simply in order to keep fit . |
| 14 | An ambitious lecturer in an English Department is writing for his peer group , not for the general public . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Doctors at King 's College Hospital , London , believe that Aisling Barnett , 35 , who suffered liver failure after reacting to a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter , would have died yesterday if not for the operation . |
| 17 | Not for the first time , Kevin Blackwell chose to sprint rashly from his goal ; both he and Dixon were beaten by the bounce , and Kevin Wilson outstripped his marker to score . |
| 18 | S&N , not for the first time , enjoyed a heady ferment as , once again , the market was gripped by the story that the Elders ' 23.7 per cent shareholding had found a new home . |
| 19 | They had fallen behind when Simon Tracey , not for the last time , missed a corner and right-back Colin Hill poked Shane Westley 's header into his own net . |
| 20 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 21 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 22 | Thus a suspect defence completed the qualifying programme of six matches without conceding a goal ; they must be doing something right , although not for the first time their debt to Shilton was manifest . |
| 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 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |
| 27 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 28 | This high level route is not for the faint hearted — as well as being longer than the Pennine Way it involves much more climbing . |
| 29 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 30 | 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 . |