Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 It will be noticed that in all of this the term " correlate " is being used in a way consistent with our previous uses of " event " , " cause " , " condition " , " causal circumstance " , and " effect " : not for a type of thing , but for a thing itself , more particularly an individual property or set of such properties rather than a type .
2 ‘ Football League clubs can postpone a match for an England call-up , but not for a Republic of Ireland game .
3 The unit of registration was the township , and the instructions called for certification of the owner of each piece of land there , not for a statement of the property of each inhabitant .
4 They enjoy being together , but not for every minute of the day .
5 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 ’ .
6 It was originally written in Hebrew , and therefore not for the perusal of the Gentiles .
7 It is not for the want of trying .
8 The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying .
9 We do have the Wolfe report but unfortunately not for the want of effort , the Wolfe report is turning out like the Black report and others and I do n't say that because there was a gentleman who done a report Black and it is gathering dust , the Wolfe report is on the same shelf , I believe .
10 This was , when all is said and done , class legislation : enacted by one class for the betterment of its lower brethren ; not for the correction of its own bad habits .
11 If not for the help of the librarian she might not even have found the book .
12 The Crown made one last attempt to revive the Forest law and the Forest courts , not for the preservation of the king 's hunting rights , but to promote the production of timber .
13 Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy .
14 The opposite side of the argument is that in task allocation people may not receive appropriate care at appropriate times and that the day is succession of minor interruptions , made for the convenience of the organisation and not for the benefit of individuals .
15 Not for the benefit of others , he never does anything for the benefit of others , one can only feel that he sees some advantage in releasing these British people .
16 This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation .
17 The director of a company has a duty to carry on the business of that company in all respects in good faith for the benefit of that company and not for the benefit of other group companies .
18 Do you not think that almost regardless of the reply and whatever that reply contained , with what we now know with the benefit of hindsight about Liechtenstein , which was actually known by I M R O there 's not for the benefit of hindsight that was n't known at that time , should n't I M R O have refused immediately to license any organisation that was controlled out of Liechtenstein in those circumstances ?
19 announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with .
20 For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand .
21 I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy .
22 I can not for the life of me understand anglers who use those lifeless , poker-like , stepped-up carp rods coupled with lines of 12lb or less .
23 Only my problem is , all my package-tour details were in the small valise , and — would you believe it ? — I can not for the life of me recall where I am checked in .
24 I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up .
25 I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent .
26 He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons .
27 I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out .
28 I can not for the life of me see why they 're so resistant to it .
29 I can not for the life of me see this is a reasonable attitude on the part of the County Council .
30 I can not for the life of me see Wilko releasin Rocky , especially for only 1 Million .
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