Example sentences of "[pers pn] not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And was one of them not for that and my neck ? |
| 2 | A mother had instituted her sons heirs and added : ‘ Let them not for any reason alienate the lands which will come to them from my estate , but let them conserve them for their successors and give each other reciprocal guarantees to that effect . ’ |
| 3 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 4 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 5 | Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered . |
| 6 | Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language . |
| 7 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
| 8 | Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken . |
| 9 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |