Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
| 2 | The world 's top securities market regulators , who met recently in Venice , cited the need to reconcile financial statements to local accounting standards as a significant factor in any company 's decision on which markets to target or not for an international offering of new shares . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 5 | His brief was to design an item of cutlery with and not for a disabled student . |
| 6 | In it those who want it have some paid employment , probably on a part-time , possibly job-sharing basis , and not for an entire lifetime . |
| 7 | Talk is primarily for the participants and not for an outside audience . |
| 8 | As he said ( and not for the first time ) , you ca n't beat a bit of local knowledge . |
| 9 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 10 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 11 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 12 | Her voice dropped , turning low and vicious , and not for the first time , Michael Lee realized how cold and calculating , how vicious and cunning she was . |
| 13 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 14 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |
| 15 | Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike . |
| 16 | He strolled down the road , thinking , and not for the first time , what a remarkably quiet and empty road Church Row was . |
| 17 | I wo n't accept the job because of Tom Russell , she thought feverishly , and not for the first time . |
| 18 | This time , and not for the first time , it was to be Jenna . |
| 19 | No need to ask who 's been on the piss all weekend , and not for the first time . |
| 20 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 21 | Again his gaze was intent , and not for the first time Robbie cursed the need for evasion , the maintenance of her fiction concerning Hugh . |
| 22 | Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension . |
| 23 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 24 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 25 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend makes the point : it is his local authority 's duty to comply with the 1968 Act and not for the chief constable to bend section 39 of the 1986 Act . |
| 27 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |
| 28 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 29 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 30 | Loretta had the grace to feel uncomfortable , if not for the right reasons . |