Example sentences of "not for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you present a surface dyslexic with the stimulus frays and ask , not for the word to be read aloud , but for the patient to say what the word means . |
| 2 | It was originally written in Hebrew , and therefore not for the perusal of the Gentiles . |
| 3 | It is not for the want of trying . |
| 4 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If not for the help of the librarian she might not even have found the book . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The druidical temple which Johnson saw would have proved extremely difficult for me to find , were it not for the presence in Strichen of one of the most useful guiding systems on earth — a group of local schoolboys idling on their bicycles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 18 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I can not for the life of me see why they 're so resistant to it . |
| 26 | I can not for the life of me see this is a reasonable attitude on the part of the County Council . |
| 27 | I can not for the life of me see Wilko releasin Rocky , especially for only 1 Million . |
| 28 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 29 | Not for the experience of being a successful playwright ( he penned The Crucible among others ) , or for the trauma of being accused of being a communist in the ‘ Reds under the beds ’ witch-hunt of the 1950s . |
| 30 | He quotes Gamgee : ‘ He toiled for lucre and not for the advancement of veterinary science ’ . |