Example sentences of "[not/n't] for the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I do n't deliver the goods , I do n't get any money , In business you get paid for results , not for the hours you put in . ’ |
| 2 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 3 | Yes , of course I am disgruntled , but not for the reasons you may adduce . |
| 4 | ‘ Not for the reasons you imagine , Sarella . ’ |
| 5 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |
| 6 | After a divorce there is a terrible sense of loneliness — not for the person you married but just being on your own . |
| 7 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 8 | A book for art historians , journalists , writers on art , but not for the artists themselves . |
| 9 | It 's certainly not for the spectacle which peaks with three dozen chinese lanterns and a sprinkling of fairy lights in the stalls . |
| 10 | Firstly , the plaintiff was compensated for the loss he suffered as a result of the injury , not for the injury itself . |
| 11 | ‘ But not for the reason you think . |
| 12 | Oh , yes , thought Juliet , I 'm worried , but not for the reason you think . |
| 13 | She hesitated , but not for the reason he imagined . |
| 14 | She did need rescuing , though not for the reason he imagined . |
| 15 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 16 | Imaginative writers know as an important item in their craft , that the way to convey emotion with most lucidity and particularity is to choose the apt words , not for the emotion itself , but for the image or scene which activates it . |
| 17 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
| 18 | Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints . |
| 19 | and it 's , no but here it 's only the holidays that really matter , if it was n't for the holidays I really would n't bother because here it really is so plotted out is n't it ? |
| 20 | yeah , completely , and erm and if it was n't for the holidays I 'd really think oh for God 's sake , bugger this , you know , I ca n't be bothered . |
| 21 | If it were n't for the bit I earn I daresay me and my bairns would be in Dudley House an' all . |
| 22 | Indeed , if it was n't for the warning we found in his pouch , we would have assumed it was a simple accident . ’ |
| 23 | it was n't for the Dalesman it was for er |
| 24 | I would n't for the world he should miscarry . ’ |
| 25 | Efficient as it undoubtedly was , the incinerator loo was n't for the workforce who feared the menace it posed to their privates . |
| 26 | They say that if you , if it was n't for the shooting we would n't have any grouse or pheasants cos they would n't be preserved . |