Example sentences of "[is] not for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please note that if I commit suicide today … it is not for economic reasons ( for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means , even refusing jobs ) but for political reasons . |
| 2 | Yet the Mani is not for all tastes . |
| 3 | It is not for such radical views , strongly held through they were , that she is remembered , but for the understanding support she gave to thousands of working-class women , giving them the confidence to venture into public life . |
| 4 | Shorting is not for maiden aunts . |
| 5 | ‘ Their pride is not for each other , it 's for themselves . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | A LATE penalty against a local team in the French Championship is not for faint-of-heart referees . |
| 8 | NT 's SMP implementation is not for existing iAPX-86 personal computers at all … |
| 9 | Cancun is not for hardened travellers . |
| 10 | It is not for those intent on self-fulfilment nor for the ‘ successful ’ . |
| 11 | Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class . |
| 12 | He stressed that the rebuilding is not for cosmetic reasons , in many cases the original boathouses were built to house a pulling boat whose launching power was probably munching grass in a nearby field . |
| 13 | It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense . |
| 14 | In fact , as we have already indicated , there can be little doubt that the most important and overriding purpose of comparative studies is not for any practical policy implications which may be derived . |
| 15 | Alan Pretty , a team leader in personnel services at Lincolnshire SSD , believes it is very much a management move and is not for social workers who want to continue in the caring role . |
| 16 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 17 | Such splendour is not for most of us , either as patrons or purchasers ; but , if he is content to appreciate the diligence of the scribe rather than luxuriate in the extravagancies of the illuminator , the collector can assemble single leaves from a wide variety of manuscripts at modest cost . |
| 18 | This level of pressure will strip paint , lift tiles and even cut thin metal so the option is not for widespread application . |
| 19 | Kinnock is resolutely of his place — principled , passionate , sentimental — and , by that token , he is not for these times . |
| 20 | OBJECTIVE reality is not for double agents — ‘ we are more light beams of light ’ — dispersed like atomic particles by the act of observation . |
| 21 | The money is not for top-heavy administration but for research . |
| 22 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
| 23 | It 's not for ethnic minorities , or ethnic majorities . |
| 24 | Now lets just close with those words of of Peter , on the day of pentecost , it 's not for other just , he says it 's for you , it 's for your children , and it 's to as many as there are far off , right down through the centuries , as many as the Lord our God shall call . |
| 25 | They force the listener to be aware it 's not for real . |
| 26 | It 's not for real Stuart . |
| 27 | It 's not for that it 's for |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And I said to the Lord , in my pride , ‘ No , it 's okay Lord , it 's not for another twenty minutes ’ . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , Clive , ’ she screeched at him , ‘ it 's not for last time . |