Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 2 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 3 | For all its relevance and cleverness , you ca n't get around the fact that this book was written not for a generation but for a media eager to snap up fresh-tasting morsels . |
| 4 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 5 | There also lay embedded in the system the inequality of paying not for the job but for the qualifications : degrees received a year 's extra increment and as a result earnings differentials rose . |
| 6 | Such surplus as was created was used not for the accumulation of more wealth but , instead , was used for conspicuous consumption ( courts , fine clothing and castles ) or for wars against foreign foes . |
| 7 | Once out of sight it speeded up , heading not for the crematorium but back to the mortuary . |
| 8 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |
| 9 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 10 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 11 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 12 | If the term subjection be used in its extreme sense I do not for a moment believe that any such solution exists . |
| 13 | His alternative is what he calls an ‘ appreciative ’ stance : ‘ These appreciative sentiments are easily summarized : we do not for a moment wish that we could rid ourselves of deviant phenomena . |
| 14 | Clive Barnes — later to become one of the ‘ Butchers of Broadway ’ , as critic for the New York Times wrote : ‘ Although One Over The Eight is described as a ‘ new revue ’ do not for a moment be fooled . |
| 15 | ‘ I do not for a moment doubt the right and duty of the media to comment on sentences and criticise judges . |
| 16 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 17 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 18 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 19 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 20 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 21 | I do n't , do n't for a minute think it 's from that hand , because you know the tingling , you 're s are you supposed to get tingling all time ? |
| 22 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 23 | I no no I do n't for a start accept it . |
| 24 | There are ninety nine pupils , the total staff is one hundred , of course that does not for a moment mean that er , there is one member of staff attendant on each pupil at all times , and I do n't for a moment suggest that . |
| 25 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 26 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 27 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 28 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 29 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 30 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |