Example sentences of "[not/n't] for the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contest , owing to the tiger 's height , colouring , and ability to move without making a sound , would be very unequal were it not for the wind-factor operating in favour of the sportsman . |
| 2 | Not for the first time in the past few months , Jonadab was disturbed to recognise envy and the seeds of discord in his youngest son . |
| 3 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 4 | Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child . |
| 5 | We are then faced , not for the first time in the analysis of societies economically based on capitalist modes of production , with certain significant asymmetries between the social relations of the dominant productive mode and other relations within the general social and cultural order . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is not an exaggeration ( or a slur ) to say that the students were sometimes a jump ahead of their tutors , not for the first time in the history of education ! |
| 7 | Spruce consulted his list , failing to make any sort of connection and asked , not for the first time in the enquiry , ‘ Which Yaxlee would that be ? ’ |
| 8 | However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong . |
| 9 | If things get too complicated , he told himself , not for the first time in the last few months , I can always make a run for it . |
| 10 | The tendency for carnivores to get progressively ‘ better ’ would soon run out of steam , as do human arms races ( for reasons of economic cost which we shall come to ) , were it not for the parallel tendency in the prey . |
| 11 | Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within . |