Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end even that was not enough for continued survival . |
| 2 | However , examples of this kind are so few that they indicate only a slight tendency ( possibly confined to some pre-sonorant environments ) , which is not enough for /a/ backing to be discussed as a stereotype . |
| 3 | Sometimes it 's not enough for environmental health officers to check out reports on their own — they need police help to get partygoers to quieten down . |
| 4 | These results are in contrast with the New York Case Control Study which showed that cholesterol values in patients with advanced colorectal carcinomas were significantly different from those of controls ; this was not so for early disease . |
| 5 | HMIs fulfil both of these conditions , but this is not so for local authority inspectors . |
| 6 | This document is significant not only for New Testament studies . |
| 7 | It is important for the Opposition to bear it in mind that their opposition to the roads programme is a recipe not only for increased congestion but for increased fatalities and casualties on our roads . |
| 8 | However the increasingly open and competitive markets of the EC , USA and Japan present a special challenge , not only for locally-based exporting companies but also for those whose sales are restricted to the UK market . |
| 9 | Apart from certain exceptional cases , a trustee is entitled to no remuneration for his trouble , unless the terms of the trust so direct , and is liable not only for dishonest dealing with the trust property , but for all loss due either to non-observance of the directions in the settlement and the general rules of law , or to failure on his part to act up to the high standard of care which equity and statute law require of him . |
| 10 | For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor . |
| 11 | To add to AW 's existing range of products a number of high quality and complementary brands of beer with the capacity not only for regional development but also rapid national development through AW 's marketing network . |
| 12 | In a time of economic recession such as that of the early 1990s , there is a strong case not only for low interest rates but also for increased public expenditure , especially on roads , bridges , airports and other civic needs , and on unemployment compensation and welfare payments , all to employ or protect the unemployed and those otherwise adversely affected . |
| 13 | Under the Brady plan , hard-up countries which carry out structural economic reforms that meet the approval of the International Monetary Fund qualify not only for partial debt forgiveness by the banks but also , in some cases , for new money . |
| 14 | During the 1970s both daily papers showed a heavy reliance on foreign material , and not only for non-African news . |
| 15 | Remember that you are reading not only for historical information but also to increase your historical understanding . |
| 16 | The plans allowed not only for considerable retrenchment of the mental hospital facilities , but also for the possibility that resettling long-stay patients would prove difficult and that more modern on-site village-style accommodation might be required . |
| 17 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 18 | He was dignified , he was knowledgeable , and he obviously had great feeling not only for British art but all kinds of art . |
| 19 | The evolution of human ego-structures is of immense significance not only for psychoanalytic ego-psychology but also for the principal subject of this book : namely , the psychopathology of our times and its relation to the cultural , economic and psychological evolution of our species . |
| 20 | These studies are important not only for recurrent stone disease but also because a knowledge of gall stone recurrence is likely to provide valuable clues about the pathogenesis and treatment of primary gall stone disease . |
| 21 | That balance is achieved best with the presence of both role models , not only for psychosexual stability , but also for the learning process of which harmonious and healthy conflict management is a part . |
| 22 | At the inquiry they had stated that , if the Secretary of State decided the house should be preserved , they would pay not only for past subsidence damage but also for preventative works , in the form of a raft underneath the building , which could be jacked up to correct the effect of any subsidence . |
| 23 | Volunteers are signed up and the hunt gets underway — not only for sufficient food , but also equipment for turning a building into a temporary home . |
| 24 | Adrian Arbib makes hand-crafted boxes which are useful not only for day-to-day storage , but also for outdoor expeditions and for transporting finished works . |
| 25 | Adrian Arbib makes hand-crafted boxes which are useful not only for day-to-day storage , but also for outdoor expeditions and for transporting finished works . |
| 26 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 27 | Not not for normal talk . |
| 28 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
| 29 | Christianity is not just for private behaviour and public worship . |
| 30 | This is not just for administrative tidiness : lack of co-ordination generates significant problems . |