Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] for [art] [noun] " 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 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 4 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Once out of sight it speeded up , heading not for the crematorium but back to the mortuary . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 14 | If the term subjection be used in its extreme sense I do not for a moment believe that any such solution exists . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I do not for a moment doubt the right and duty of the media to comment on sentences and criticise judges . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 25 | I no no I do n't for a start accept it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's just that I like him and it 's silly to pretend I do n't for the sake of pride . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |