Example sentences of "[not/n't] for a [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Not for a long time had Vi felt so uncomfortable . |
| 32 | It is a combination that I have used in the past but not for a long time , although blue and white stripes in fabrics are a perennial favourite of mine . |
| 33 | No , I wo n't return , not for a long time , it 's too painful and upsetting . |
| 34 | Not for a long time . |
| 35 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 36 | But er not not for a long time . |
| 37 | Been to it before but not for a long time . |
| 38 | Not for a long time now . |
| 39 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 40 | And with a little extra trouble it can be turned into a splendid party dish — not for a grand formal party to be sure , or even a buffet party , but the sort of meal for intimate friends when you can put all the food on a huge scrubbed kitchen table and everyone sits round and helps themselves . |
| 41 | The top is not visible from the road , and were it not for a sizeable cairn you could miss it altogether . |
| 42 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 43 | We 've never , no , not for a single day , |
| 44 | Not for a single moment . |
| 45 | ‘ Not for a single moment would one want those days to return . |
| 46 | ‘ Not for a big , strong boy like you , ’ she beseeched him . |
| 47 | The type of copier installed here , with its rigid lid and document feeder etc , is appropriate to business use , but not for a scientific/ educational establishment . |
| 48 | They object to a little cotton apron on the mice which is made from a baby 's dress — it was suitable for a baby but not for a stuffed mouse to wear ! ’ |
| 49 | Mr Mortimer , currently at work on a play for the BBC and a drama series for Meridian , tells me he hopes there will be another Rumpole series : ‘ But not for a little while . ’ |
| 50 | He 's right , but not for a little while . |
| 51 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 52 | The outcome of mature meetings is to search for solutions and to reach consensus , not for a particular group to score points over another . |
| 53 | What is also new , she emphasised , is that the assessment is of a need , not for a particular service . |
| 54 | a false indication that a price is expected to be increased or reduced or maintained ( whether or not for a particular period ) ; |
| 55 | Were it not for a severe epidemic of puerperal fever ( ‘ childbed fever ’ ) in Aberdeen , which lasted from December 1789 to March 1792 , Gordon might well have been forgotten . |
| 56 | Even more striking is the example provided by Francis Bacon , that most ardent apologist for useful science — but not for a Copernican universe . |
| 57 | Certainly not for a wasteful spendthrift , who preyed upon a gullible old woman ! |
| 58 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 59 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |