Example sentences of "[be] for the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't been for the long hair and the high heels , we 'd have thought we had a squaddie on our hands . |
| 2 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 3 | It might even have been handsome had it not been for the dark scowl that currently shadowed it . |
| 4 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 5 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 6 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 7 | Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape . |
| 8 | You 'll really be for the high jump if you do n't put Farley 's Tea Timers on their menu . |
| 9 | My only thing in life will be for the next hour and forty minutes fuck , I live to tape , okay ? |
| 10 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 11 | This charge will be for the whole year and will be based on their term-time address . |
| 12 | The reading should always be for the -intrinsic interest or value of what is read … it should never be thought of as an exercise . " |
| 13 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 14 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 15 | It 's for the bigger lady and |
| 16 | It is for the HVS–E1 climber that the crag has most to offer though , and a short tour along the edge taking in the following climbs will not disappoint . |
| 17 | The most common error from the top of the backswing is for the right arm and shoulder to push forward , for the right side to unwind prematurely , and for the cut across , out-to-in action to be set . |
| 18 | It is for the splendid house and the surrounding park at Kedleston that Curzon will be especially remembered . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 21 | Clearly this type of set up is for the larger filter and pond . |
| 22 | Well of course I do know that the , the only answer to it , of course , is for the christian way but it 's not what it , that 's going to happen . |
| 23 | Surely the question whether Parliament could have passed the particular legislation is logically irrelevant to the question whether the legislation is for the public safety and defence of the realm . |
| 24 | The right of free speech is one which it is for the public interest that individuals should possess , and , indeed , that they should exercise without impediment , so long as no wrongful act is done . |
| 25 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 26 | Fifth , the problem of fonts and output matching will become as big a problem for the desktop publishing market as it ever was for the traditional sector and potentially more confusing for the user than ever before . |
| 27 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 28 | But I just said that it was for the Welsh Office cos I thought if er they knew it was for a Authority you know ? |
| 29 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |