Example sentences of "not [vb pp] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 2 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 3 | The right of rejection is not given for an ordinary breach of warranty . |
| 4 | The result was a vessel which was surprisingly fast and manoeuvrable for its size — few were more than twenty drem in length — but they were not designed for an extended sea journey , that was certain . |
| 5 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 6 | No , they 're not made for a tall man er , you know my |
| 7 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 8 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 9 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 10 | In such conditions , where drug combinations are not used for an adequate length of time , resistant strains have every chance of profiting from the destruction of their more sensitive relatives , and establishing a reservoir of intractable organisms . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 12 | Pearl has the unenviable reputation of being one of the more sleepy members within a sector not noted for a dynamic approach . |
| 13 | If the player tampers with those , he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation . |
| 14 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 15 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 16 | But she had not bargained for a complete refusal to attend . |
| 17 | That was the fate of the worker on the Anglo American farm estate Vergelegen , dismissed for asking his employers why he was not paid for a public holiday . |
| 18 | Even when not launched for a revolutionary purpose , war according to Marx has a revolutionary effect . |
| 19 | ‘ Switzerland have not qualified for a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup finals and have grown used to losing . |