Example sentences of "not for [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The high forward paddling style is appropriate for a touring boat but not for a WW playboat . |
| 2 | ‘ No power on earth is greater , and the Yasa is his to do as he — ’ not for a Kha-Khan to amuse himself like a selfish child . ’ |
| 3 | But the Spirit of God was not for every Tom , Dick and Harry . |
| 4 | Special care he reserved for his own wife and not for the Mrs Strawsons of this world . |
| 5 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 6 | Were it not for the Buddha , |
| 7 | ‘ This is not for the Mamur Zapt . ’ |
| 8 | So the family overstayed its permitted time and then left , not for the United States but for Galway , without notifying the authorities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If it was not for the Leeds fans and manager Howard Wilkinson I would not have got anywhere near this . |
| 11 | At present money received in roubles from concerts can be spent on food , hotels , transport , presents , etc. but not for the Dublin-Moscow flight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 15 | The committee would never have given me this show if it was n't for the Machin revival . |
| 16 | I 'm almost certain I would never have been a writer if it was n't for the Moroneys . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After all if it was n't for the Maxwell fraud , the Good Committee would never have been set up . |