Example sentences of "[pron] not for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its strengths are power and precision , but its not for the faint-hearted |
| 2 | ‘ Are ye not for a wee something after ? ’ queried Jim , taking his apron off . |
| 3 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 4 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 5 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 6 | Were it not for a severe epidemic of puerperal fever ( ‘ childbed fever ’ ) in Aberdeen , which lasted from December 1789 to March 1792 , Gordon might well have been forgotten . |
| 7 | The top is not visible from the road , and were it not for a sizeable cairn you could miss it altogether . |
| 8 | The Goblin King , Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain , infamous old Goblin Warlord and Lord of the Crags , was suddenly and unexpectedly struck by what could have been a big rock were it not for the sploshy red stuff that exploded from it , showering the goblin horde . |
| 9 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 10 | The contest , owing to the tiger 's height , colouring , and ability to move without making a sound , would be very unequal were it not for the wind-factor operating in favour of the sportsman . |
| 11 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 12 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 14 | Certainly in Light ( 1857 ) [ 1843 – 60 ] All ER Rep 934 , the accused was guilty of an assault when he said : " Were it not for the bloody policeman outside , I would split your head open . " |
| 15 | Few farm workers leave the land because they dislike the job itself ; on the contrary many would return were it not for the poor pay and prospects . |
| 16 | It would be easy to put this 1814 statement down to the cowardice of a middle-aged civil servant ashamed of his youthful indiscretion , were it not for the amazing passage which follows . |
| 17 | The tendency for carnivores to get progressively ‘ better ’ would soon run out of steam , as do human arms races ( for reasons of economic cost which we shall come to ) , were it not for the parallel tendency in the prey . |
| 18 | Again , the tendency towards progressive improvement in gazelles would slow to a halt , were it not for the parallel tendency to improvement shown by their predators . |
| 19 | This would not matter , were it not for the apparent demise of the Liberals , who used to hold the balance in the Bundestag and whose defection brought down Helmut Schmidt 's government in October . |
| 20 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 21 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 22 | Even though it was unsupported by evidence , the conclusion would have been allowable were it not for the second piece of information contained in the warning message . |
| 23 | You might fear an element of sanctimoniousness here , were it not for the certain knowledge that McIlvanney is probably even harder on himself . |
| 24 | It is suggested that this could be faster were it not for the introduced American Mink which may be occupying the position once held by Polecats in the habitat . |
| 25 | Mr Museveni would have been unable to stay in power were it not for the economic success unfolding around him . |
| 26 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 27 | Indeed the most dramatically powerful scene could be painfully sentimental were it not for the fierce intensity with which Tom Fleming expresses his feelings . |
| 28 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 29 | Also the proportion of rods to spinelets varies to the exclusion of spinelets which would lead to confusion with O. densa were it not for the different number of arm spines , the proximal spines forming a fan and the raised oral frame . |
| 30 | Perhaps these people feel , as do members of the local communities , that the coastline would not be in such urgent need of ‘ protection ’ were it not for the imminent threat of creation of a housing development , larger than the existing village of Dirleton , adjacent to it . |