Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not not for normal talk . |
| 2 | But , please , not for twentieth century media conferences . |
| 3 | Definition : Investment is the production of or expenditure by firms on goods and services which are not for current consumption : that is , real capital goods , like factories , machines , bridges and motorways , all goods which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in future periods . |
| 4 | The improvement may only be apparent ( or pseudo ) if , in addition , the increase in real output per capita is accompanied by negative externalities or is caused by increased production of goods and services which are not for current consumption . |
| 5 | It is firms ' spending on goods which are not for current consumption but which yield a flow of consumer goods and services in the future . |
| 6 | Pictures of the chairman ten years ago or the old plant before the renovations are only of interest for the company history and are definitely not for current use . |
| 7 | Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt : |
| 8 | This is ideal for thick yarns and pile knitting , but not for ordinary work . |
| 9 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 10 | Liability is imposed for defective goods , not for defective land . |
| 11 | It would be even nicer to think he was trying to make her jealous because he still cared for her and not for pure spite , and it would be nice if she sobered up and faced life 's harsh realities ! |
| 12 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 13 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 15 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 16 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 17 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 18 | Not for that sort of er thing , no . |
| 19 | ‘ Not for that hoor ! ’ he snarled . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 21 | He stressed that the CP would continue to demand a whites-only general election , and that " this is not the end of the political war " ; the CP would recognize the referendum result " as the actual situation , but not for all eternity " . |
| 22 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 23 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 24 | Not for one minute . ’ |
| 25 | If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration . |
| 26 | Not for one minute did his guard slip until she was forced to accept that that was exactly how he felt about her . |
| 27 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 28 | Not for one instant . |
| 29 | No , not for one man , woman or child . |
| 30 | He just could n't get it out of his mind , not for one second . |