Example sentences of "[not/n't] for that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not for that sort of er thing , no . |
| 8 | ‘ Not for that hoor ! ’ he snarled . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |