Example sentences of "not for the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ego wants us to develop talents and acquire knowledge , not for the sheer joy and challenge of playing the clarinet , reading Proust or rewiring the house , but so that we will be flattered and admired . |
| 2 | Few farm workers leave the land because they dislike the job itself ; on the contrary many would return were it not for the poor pay and prospects . |
| 3 | These differ from college accommodation services in that they act not for the prospective tenant but on behalf of the landlords by pre-sifting applicants . |
| 4 | You might fear an element of sanctimoniousness here , were it not for the certain knowledge that McIlvanney is probably even harder on himself . |
| 5 | At last her conscience won out and she gave a tiny sigh , wishing not for the first time that she could , just occasionally , be a touch more ruthless . |
| 6 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 7 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 8 | Fabliau narrative is characteristically brief , and the plot is complicated and problematic only for some of the characters within the tales , not for the well-informed readers or audience of the piece . |
| 9 | I guess it is mildly amusing to see Bolan 's head emerge ghostlike from Elton John 's piano as the guesting Reg hammers out ‘ Children Of The Revolution ’ , though probably not for the right reasons and certainly not enough to detract from the leaden weight of the music . |
| 10 | Encased in pile and nylon , hoods drawn tight , it would be easy to forget the world in a welter of sensations , were it not for the running commentary that Tove keeps up . |
| 11 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 12 | In particular , he could say that it is not for the Conservative Party or anybody else to determine the budget options of Parliament . |
| 13 | Not for the conservative party or the liberal party or the labour party . |
| 14 | Were it not for the extreme aggression that subsequently erupts when the males come too close to one another , superfecundation would undoubtedly be even more common than it is , but some males will never dare to risk a mating with a dominant tom-cat watching from nearby . |
| 15 | Kurtag is Ligeti 's opposite — a divergent musical thinker whose every new work might be by another composer , were it not for the extreme compression that is constant to his style . |
| 16 | A. Rhododendron ‘ Praecox ’ Not for the coldest gardens or for alkaline soils , but generally worth growing , given shelter from wind and early morning sun . |
| 17 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |