Example sentences of "was not [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culturalists will point out — as C. S. Lewis once did — that much poetry of the past was not written for aesthetic ends , but for religious , political , or other social purposes . |
| 2 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 3 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 4 | It is likely that Gorbachev 's Mediterranean initiative was not intended for serious negotiation . |
| 5 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 6 | Only the second ball of the over was not hit for four . |
| 7 | The pastry crust that had topped the pie during its parade through the village was not eaten for hygienic reasons , so 50,000 squares of puff pastry had been baked separately and these were reheated — not too successfully — in a mobile oven in the huge open-sided marquee into which the pie , on its trailer , eventually came to rest . |
| 8 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
| 9 | Specific ethical approval was not obtained for physiological recordings , which were considered part of clinical management . |
| 10 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 11 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 12 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 13 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 14 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 15 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 16 | The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons , but from financial necessity . |
| 17 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 18 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 19 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 20 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 21 | To add to W. 's problems , as if she had not enough already , the clinical psychologist treating W. left the area in March 1991 , W. then being nearly 15 , and was not replaced for five months . |
| 22 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 23 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |
| 24 | They searched carefully until they were satisfied that the sensitive area was not armed for self-destruction , as many were . |
| 25 | The lock was not designed for rough treatment . |
| 26 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 27 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 28 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 29 | She retired quickly after her friend into the kitchen , overcome by a sense of invaded privacy ; a garden , to her , was not meant for such intimacies . |
| 30 | She was not found for 16 hours . |