Example sentences of "not for the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special care he reserved for his own wife and not for the Mrs Strawsons of this world . |
| 2 | ( Note that these figures are for a hypothetical population with the life history given by a , not for the life history as it was while the lines were selected . ) |
| 3 | It is not for the Home Secretary , government or the House to lay down to the courts how many people they send to prison . |
| 4 | Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market . |
| 5 | Well it 's erm , it 's not for the conversation content it 's the words . |
| 6 | ‘ This is not for the Mamur Zapt . ’ |
| 7 | So the family overstayed its permitted time and then left , not for the United States but for Galway , without notifying the authorities . |
| 8 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 9 | A Minister for Health , not for the Tobacco Industry |
| 10 | At last there is a Minister for Health , not for the Tobacco Industry ’ . |
| 11 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 12 | From what has been said above , it will be clear that the Oxford English Dictionary Department would not be what it is , if it were not for the Supplement project lying at the heart of its work . |
| 13 | The Treasury and the US Congress have provided Clinton with some statistical support for this perception , but not for the revenue estimate . |
| 14 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 15 | If it was not for the Leeds fans and manager Howard Wilkinson I would not have got anywhere near this . |
| 16 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 17 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
| 18 | Not for the War Museum , where the season of peace and goodwill has found plenty of Rambo-esque revellers prepared to toast each other across tank turrets and artillery guns . |
| 19 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 20 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 21 | At present money received in roubles from concerts can be spent on food , hotels , transport , presents , etc. but not for the Dublin-Moscow flight . |
| 22 | It 's not for the planning authority |
| 23 | This brought an access of homesickness , not for the Yorkshire moors but for the English language , and also for the long days of last summer 's play , for Alexander Wedderburn 's blown-rose full-blooded verse on the Elizabethan terrace at Long Royston , English summer evenings . |
| 24 | It would be reasonable to suppose that at this latitude the islands would be frozen in for most — if not all — of the year , and so they would , were it not for the Gulf Stream . |
| 25 | I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community . |
| 26 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 27 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 28 | But then small automatics are n't for the performance buff ! |
| 29 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 30 | The social mythology of the Republic is built on the concept of classlessness — the belief , as President George Bush once put it , that class is ‘ for European democracies or something else — it is n't for the United States of America . |