Example sentences of "it [adv] for the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
| 2 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Were it not for the material in the reports of Hansard to which your Lordships have been referred , I , too , would still be of that view , for although I recognise that in popular parlance with provision to one individual of a service which is , in any event , being provided for reward to many others may be said to cost the provider little or nothing , ‘ cost ’ in accountancy terms is merely a computation of outgoing expenditure without reference to receipts . |
| 5 | Tolstoy spells it out for the reader in ways that are terribly painful ; he leaves no room for pictures ’ ( quoted ibid . |