Example sentences of "be for the [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 2 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 3 | It will be for the privatised companies in due course to establish pensions arrangements for their employees . |
| 4 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 5 | The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances . |
| 6 | There is no surviving detailed assessment of income for the eleventh-century papacy as there is for the English kings in the great Domesday Book of 1086 . |
| 7 | His first run there was for the Scottish Students in the match against their English counterparts at Myreside the day before the Calcutta Cup match in January . |