Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 62 | Not for the first time , the legate had shown more enthusiasm for papal power than the pope . |
| 63 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 64 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 65 | NOT FOR the first time , Pakistan 's selectors kept onlookers guessing about the make-up of their team . |
| 66 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 67 | Not for the first time Selvey painted the best picture . |
| 68 | Not for the first — or last — time in my life , I wished that my name began with a W and not a B ! |
| 69 | ‘ Not for the first time ’ , the article concluded , ‘ Italian communism appears economically much harder-headed than British Socialism . ’ |
| 70 | There was petite marmite and , not for the first time , the Colonel is at a loss to understand why some restaurant managers seem unaware of the existence of any other soup . |
| 71 | Her voice dropped , turning low and vicious , and not for the first time , Michael Lee realized how cold and calculating , how vicious and cunning she was . |
| 72 | " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . " |
| 73 | As in the past , the cost to the union would be high , and an enforced period of recovery and retrenchment would — not for the first time — follow . |
| 74 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 75 | Although Hazel guessed that they must now have gone further from the warren than any rabbit he had ever talked to , he was not sure whether they were yet safely away : and it was while he was wondering — not for the first time — whether he could hear sounds of pursuit that he first noticed the dark masses of the trees and the brook disappearing among them . |
| 76 | Not for the first time , she wishes she had her sister 's confidence with men , her way of saying just the right thing in the right way to make them laugh , or listen , or love . |
| 77 | Lacuna said , not for the first time . |
| 78 | Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child . |
| 79 | Not for the first time she missed her husband dreadfully . |
| 80 | The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers . |
| 81 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 82 | Recent revelations of substantial miscarriages of justice have drawn attention , not for the first time , to the shortcomings of the criminal trial as a reliable test of guilt . |
| 83 | The talk , not for the first time , is of dams . |
| 84 | The English are ugly , Stephanie thought , not for the first time . |
| 85 | Not for the first time he thought how monotonous it was , this unerring selection of inappropriate objects of desire . |
| 86 | But by then the damage was done ; the demons had escaped Pandora 's box and , not for the first time , the demands of laissez-faire capitalism had subverted traditional moralities . |
| 87 | We are then faced , not for the first time in the analysis of societies economically based on capitalist modes of production , with certain significant asymmetries between the social relations of the dominant productive mode and other relations within the general social and cultural order . |
| 88 | Not for the first time , his manner alarmed her a little . |
| 89 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 90 | She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was . |