Example sentences of "not for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 2 | They must play a major part in developing , using and controlling the new technology , not for their own benefit , but for the sake of the children they teach . |
| 3 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 4 | To summarize the message of this chapter , genes are selected , not for their intrinsic qualities , but by virtue of their interactions with their environments . |
| 5 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 6 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 7 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 8 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 9 | Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients that are required not for their calorific value , which is negligible , but because they help regulate the body 's metabolism . |
| 10 | Sinead O'Connor should be congratulated for her stand ( what the hell does Bob Dylan do these days ? ) against church hypocrisy but not for her recent album which is , to be frank , boring . |
| 11 | Though we threaten her with a headline reading ‘ Real Labour candidates do n't eat muesli ’ she insists that it 's not for her own consumption . |
| 12 | Hawkins is a busy authorial presence in this Bildungsroman , which she dedicated to Henrietta Maria Bowdler [ q.v. ] , not for her own writings but as friend and editor of the scholar Elizabeth Smith [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | She would have to exert her will and fight against the pain-consuming darkness , if not for her own sake , then for theirs . |
| 14 | Art of a purpose , not for its own sake , was his rubric . |
| 15 | Not for its own sake , naturally , but because apart from any useful function that may be fulfilled , it encourages a proper disregard of Self . |
| 16 | The Formalists evaluate literary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimetic capacity . |
| 17 | Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving . |
| 18 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 19 | First , that the conditions I have described constituted a substantial interference with the residents ' enjoyment of their property up to June 1990 ; second , that enough residents were affected to constitute a public nuisance if it were not for his other defences . |
| 20 | Not for his personal use : the tetracycline , the methadone — it all finds its way back to the pharmacy at AMS . |
| 21 | It is for his Bible and not for his controversial books that Tyndale is commemorated . |
| 22 | Johnson admired Boece , not for his historical accuracy , but for his prose and intellectual style , ‘ formed with great diligence upon ancient models , and wholly uninfected with monastic barbarity ’ . |
| 23 | One of my favourite species is the bream , not for his superior fighting power , for he does not test my tackle to any great degree , but because he tests my thinking power to the limit . |
| 24 | I went into the dome car and stood behind the bar with the bartender , and felt furious with Sheridan , not for his outrageous behaviour but because he was getting me noticed . |
| 25 | He is probably widely remembered today not for his important contributions to number theory , but as the teacher of Albert Einstein and the man who showed how the theory of relativity could be interpreted as the geometry of four-dimensional spacetime . |
| 26 | It was typical of him that , immediately following the accident , his concern was not for his own injuries but for his horse Mr Brooks . |
| 27 | This was because the terms of the contract between seller and buyer made it clear that the buyer in re-selling the goods was doing so , not for his own account , but as agent for , and on account of , the seller . |
| 28 | As this is a soliloquy , it reflects Brutus 's true thoughts , which are all for the general good of Rome , and not for his own ends . |
| 29 | She would not have the heart to do it , were it not for his own good . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why I 'm on the run , not for my own benefit . |