Example sentences of "[subord] not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , municipal waste can be landfilled only after being sorted and processed ; in France , tough new landfill standards have recently been introduced ; in Britain , higher standards for new landfills ( although not for existing ones ) are being introduced under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 2 | ( The 1990 law — see pp. 37684-85 — and a July 1988 law both allowed for amnesties for politicians who had received illegal campaign funds hitherto , although not for those making such contributions . ) |
| 3 | It is more common than not for upper-class women to join some religious or philanthropic organization which engages in charity work with the poor , in sharp contrast to the Popular Church 's emphasis on self-organization for change . |
| 4 | So , he WAS wanted , he supports Leeds , he s lived in Leeds all his life , why else would he want to move if not for financial reasons ? ? ? |
| 5 | However , Mr Hassell did end on a positive note — at least for leasing , if not for other forms of business finance . |
| 6 | It consists of a record of all the things you do in a day and , in order for it to be of value , you need to log every activity you are engaged in for at least one week , if not for two . |
| 7 | ‘ Anna and the prince had been married , well , if not for twenty years , not much short of it . |
| 8 | In the case of Health , there is the special relief at having escaped from those incessant wrangles over money with income-orientated professions , whose members are taken by the general public for altruistic servants of humanity , if not for angelic comforters . |
| 9 | So maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists , if not for theoretical physics . |
| 10 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 11 | Would have saved Yukio and Jesus too if not for bad luck . ’ |
| 12 | In reply , we would point out that , before we can even raise the question of correlation between linguistic expressions and extra-linguistic phenomena , we have to know what the linguistic expressions are , and for speakers and hearers ( even if not for strict behaviourists ) this means understanding them . |
| 13 | Those Acts provided not for full representation of the peerage of Scotland in the new House , but for the election by peers of Scotland ( who were not also peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ) of 16 of their number to sit . |
| 14 | Rude , but true , because not for another two decades did the Scottish capital get around to paying for proper effluent disposal into the River Forth . |
| 15 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 16 | Across the 48 stimuli there is a significant correlation between the rating for moving objects and P(A) , r(46)=0.43 , p<0.01 , though not for fixed objects and P(A) , r(46)=0.03 . |
| 17 | Sharp Corp is also thought to be working on a similar tack , though not for this year . |
| 18 | It is also possible though to use the right side of the mylar sheet on older machines for motif patterns , though not for all-over patterning . |