Example sentences of "not for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 33 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I can not for the life of me see why children have to take so long to grow up . |
| 37 | ( 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 . ) |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I can not for the life of me see why they 're so resistant to it . |
| 42 | I can not for the life of me see this is a reasonable attitude on the part of the County Council . |
| 43 | I can not for the life of me see Wilko releasin Rocky , especially for only 1 Million . |
| 44 | Unless certain peaks are foreseen , the engagements offered are not for the day but for the full length of the " event " . |
| 45 | It was not for the Government to pull the plug on a venture which was running and had cost Mr Murdoch ‘ vast amounts of money ’ . |
| 46 | That question is not for the Government ; it is for the hon. Gentleman and his party to explain to his constituents why it is in the interests of the patients of Manchester to remove private patients from NHS hospitals , to deny the NHS revenue that private patients bring and to deny benefits to NHS patients in general . |
| 47 | I went to art college for the music not for the art . |
| 48 | Whether to accept a takeover bid is a decision for shareholders , not for the board |
| 49 | Yes , a clarification is for the staff not for the parents ! |
| 50 | I 'm not for the workhouse , you know that , but I think they 'd all be better off in there . ’ |
| 51 | I must state this is not for the fur . |
| 52 | 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 . " |
| 53 | ‘ Damn you , not for the jade ! |
| 54 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |
| 55 | This long experience , monopoly position and continued popularity might have engendered an element of complacency were it not for the enthusiasm and dynamism of the teaching team assisted by the advice and encouragement of industry representatives . |
| 56 | He also remarked , significantly : If it were not for the Union , I venture to think that women would be all over the London trade . |
| 57 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 58 | Not for the competition ! |
| 59 | In one sense , the characterisation of the transaction as being either sale or exchange may be important because the remedy for defective performance in exchange is not for the price , but rather a claim for unliquidated damages for non delivery . |
| 60 | Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market . |