Example sentences of "[adv] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All figures quoted below are for weekly payments . |
| 2 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 3 | the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written |
| 4 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 5 | Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season . |
| 6 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 7 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 8 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 9 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 10 | Had it not been for seasonal visitors , the list of locally popular dishes would have been depressingly brief ; burned steaks , fried fish , and barbecued chicken . |
| 11 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |
| 12 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 13 | The payments specified in Paragraph 3 above are for non-broadcast use of the Video . |
| 14 | The payments specified in Paragraph 3 above are for non-broadcast use of the Video . |
| 15 | The payments specified in Paragraph 3 above are for non-broadcast use of the Video . |
| 16 | ‘ I try to have humility about things , just be for real . |
| 17 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 18 | In the case of Scottish and Northern Irish solicitors , application would not be for overseas lawyer status but for full membership of the Society . |
| 19 | The choice of locations need not be for permanent bases , but can also include dynamic repositioning of units as circumstances dictate ( Kolesar and Walker 1974 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If I kept a careful check on your movements — which I do n't — I can assure you it would not be for sentimental reasons . ’ |
| 21 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 22 | Subsequent Acts have tended to produce more detailed requirements , but the main thrust has always been for nationalized industries ' accounts to produce , as a minimum , the amount and kind of information that a PLC has to produce . |
| 23 | The next LAN to be developed will probably be for Horticultural Education , where external funding is currently being sought for hardware and software to run specialist grounds maintenance , works scheduling , and computerised landscape design and costing . |
| 24 | I ca n't explain why , but it will probably be for good . |
| 25 | The accident costs which mounted up were for minor , frequent mishaps such as bacterial contamination of equipment used in the creamery which were all identified and contained , and damage caused to vehicles in the transport company from manoeuvring in confined spaces . |
| 26 | For married women the tendency was even more pronounced , as it also was for part-time temporary workers ( 43 per cent did not want a permanent job against 8 per cent of full- timers ) and for those with seasonal , temporary or casual as opposed to fixed-term contract jobs ( 36 per cent against 10 per cent ) . |
| 27 | The trend now is for UK-based companies to have their European subsidiaries release key personnel for intensive training in English in the UK to help improve their all-round performance once they return home . |
| 28 | With images of picket-line strife , the broadcast warned : ‘ The last thing we need now is for Labour to come in and wreck Britain 's recovery . ’ |
| 29 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 30 | Yeah I ai n't been for blooming ages . |