Example sentences of "not [adv] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is not enough for the Secretary of State to wash his hands in this Pontius Pilate way and say he has no responsibility for what is happening . ’ |
| 2 | The conclusions of this study , which were delivered at the end of 1989 , confirmed the widely held view that takeover activity in the Community was operating on a one-way street : while the UK market was open to takeovers , this was not so for the rest of the Community . |
| 3 | With Labour welfarism out of fashion , and neo-liberalism in vogue , the scene was set , not only for the downgrading of local authority power ( including the outright abolition of the Greater London Council and the metropolitan authorities which , though actually limited in their spending power , were nevertheless the coordinators and vocal champions of many inner urban schemes ) , but also for the injection of national party dogma into the management of local affairs . |
| 4 | If consent is required pursuant to the lease not only for the assignment of that lease but for sharing occupation or parting with possession of the property , the vendor who allows the purchaser into occupation pending consent to the assignment will breach the provisions of the lease . |
| 5 | Australia is notable not only for the size of its rise and fall in deaths from chronic disease and injury but also for the strength of its institutional revolution in public health . |
| 6 | Equally , money has to be found not only for the payment of church musicians , but also for the composers and publishers upon whom church musicians depend . |
| 7 | As to 2 , they held in effect that the occupier from whose land these things escaped and did damage is liable not only for the default of his servant , but also for that of an independent contractor and ( as later decisions show ) for that of anyone except a stranger . |
| 8 | All of the preceding discussion and recommendations have implications not only for the content of Primary Language courses but also for their organisation . |
| 9 | That rarity , an album without a filler — admire every aspect as Owens finger-flicks his way through the Stax-happy , gospel croons on a couple of things Sam Cooke would have loved to wrap his larynx around , and opts for the more brooding approach on the let's do crunch of ‘ Why You Treat Me This Way ? ’ — ‘ Blues Soul ’ is remarkable not only for the performance of its outfront star , but also for that of the Pete Wingfield-led back-up squad , which nary places a quaver in the wrong place , along with Mike Vernon 's knowing production . |
| 10 | Elean : Miriam Tlali , I wish you all the best , not only for the rest of your stay here in London , but in Soweto itself , in that very difficult situation . |
| 11 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 12 | In India , fixed-price shops exist not only for the benefit of travellers ; locals use them as well . |
| 13 | Chairman Eddie Slinger said : ‘ The committee took the view that there had been a deliberate and flagrant breach of Board regulations which Mr Lamb admitted were designed not only for the benefit of the Board but all registered cricketers . |
| 14 | Nevertheless there are problems with the evidence not only for the fall of Burgundy , but also for the related history of the Auvergne . |
| 15 | We can not in justice omit to mention the establishing of the Publick Botanick Garden at Chelsea by the Worshipful Company of the Apothecaries of London , not only for the instruction of such as should be employed in the compounding of medicines , in the particular simples therein used ( which alone is a very laudable design ) but also for introducing still a greater variety of trees and plants , which although their virtues or uses are not at present known , yet may hereinafter be found of excellent use for many purposes in life . |
| 16 | As there are many centres , so there are many different ways of operating , but in a survey conducted for the Royal Commission an extract from a document prepared by the Legal Action Group was found helpful , not only for the description of law centres , but also for the distinction it drew between their function and that of legal advice centres . |
| 17 | At this level it is likely that you will be responsible not only for the supervision of legal staff but also for staff with a variety of disciplines . |
| 18 | Now a government which is deeply unhappy about criticism and intrusion from the popular press is seriously considering the reintroduction of a tax on knowledge in a move that has implications not only for the viability of newspapers , but for the reading habit , for literacy and for dissemination and debate of detailed information in a democracy . |
| 19 | While it is essential , not only for the support through food supply for indigenous populations but also to provide a sound base on which economic progress can be made , it is unfortunate that in so many cases injudicious land-use practices have negated the very factor , increased productivity , that they sought to improve . |
| 20 | Moreover the control of these emotions and their congruence with other more benign feelings , such as love and sympathy and joy in living , require the exercise of our minds , not only for the calculation of the technical means to achieve our chosen objectives , but for the formulation of the terms in which we describe the world we think we live in , and the reality within which we have to make our choices concerning the use of force . |
| 21 | It is an important aspect of local research to establish the identity and location of any markets and fairs , not only for the exchange of goods , but also as a background to the pattern of communications in an area . |
| 22 | The answers to these questions will have significance not only for the interpretation of dismissals and refusals to hire under Council Directive 76/207/EEC but also for the interpretation of Article 10 of Council Directive 92/85/EEC and other unfavourable treatment of pregnant women which the employer or the state claims is gender-neutral . |
| 23 | The National Curriculum proposal has been subjected to extensive criticism not only for the vagueness of the curriculum theory it espouses but also for its inadequate consideration of the value of the arts to the development of all pupils . |
| 24 | The guidelines issued to the National Heritage Memorial Fund allowed it to give grants , not only for the purchase of outstanding buildings , land and works of artistic and historic interest , but also to provide endowments for major houses threatened with sale . |
| 25 | Indeed , in Reg. v. Secretary of State for Transport , Ex parte Factortame Ltd. [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 85 your Lordships ' House went further than this and had regard to a Law Commission report not only for the purpose of ascertaining the mischief but also for the purpose of drawing an inference as to Parliamentary intention from the fact that Parliament had not expressly implemented one of the Law Commission 's recommendations . |
| 26 | First , and most critical , every manager must be held accountable not only for the work of subordinates but also for adding value to their work . |
| 27 | The Queen 's Speech is important not only for the way in which it deals with matters abroad , but also for its emphasis on matters at home . |
| 28 | We had about two months to prepare for the seven of them ; a period useful not only for the co-ordinating of the PR assault but also , I believe , a safety gap , a firebreak , a time in which the military could take stock , an interval in which Goreng could see if there was to be a resurgence of the lost FAKINTIL in the hills . |
| 29 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 30 | Most people who made the pilgrimage found it well worth their while , not only for the quality of the music-making but also for a quality of staging and design that pointedly bypassed the often musically ruinous fads of post-war directors ' opera in order to re-establish contact with an older and still valid tradition that goes back , with a passing glance at the work of Wieland Wagner , through Gründgens and Reinhardt to Roller and Mahler and , in some respects , Wagner himself . |