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 | In Latin America , relationships are built up in this way not just for personal support but , also , to promote commercial and political ends . |
| 28 | Christianity is not just for private behaviour and public worship . |
| 29 | This is not just for administrative tidiness : lack of co-ordination generates significant problems . |
| 30 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |