Example sentences of "[adv] be for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 2 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 3 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 4 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 5 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 6 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 7 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 8 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 9 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 10 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 11 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 12 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 13 | New York was swathed in sunlight and the heat would have been stifling had it not been for a gentle easterly breeze blowing in from the Atlantic . |
| 14 | Cantona tried hard to get involved , and within five minutes might have stolen the show , had it not been for a fine interception by Keith Curle following a fine run and cross down the left by Lee Sharpe . |
| 15 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 16 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 17 | They should remember that it would all have ended seven matches earlier if it had not been for an 88th-minute equaliser against Bashley on September 16 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 19 | Surely no more than that the Ketterings were splitting up , like so many of their acquaintances , as even the Pargeters might have done , had it not been for the late , unexpected , unplanned arrival of Jacqueline . |
| 20 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 21 | Had it not been for the psychic tracer , they must surely have lost themselves in the labyrinthine entrails of what was not one vessel but many , some of these enormous in their own right . |
| 22 | … it could have no real importance after the visit to Osborne in the course of which Napoleon III having tightened the alliance with England had nothing much to say to the Emperor of Russia , his enemy of the day before yesterday , his friend of yesterday — but not his ally of today , which he might have become had it not been for the recent drawing together of the Courts of the Tuileries and St James . |
| 23 | If it had not been for the horrific blunder by their goalkeeper at Ibrox , Howard Wilkinson 's men would go into Battle of Britain II at Elland Road seeking merely to confirm the superiority of the English domestic game over the Scottish . |
| 24 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 25 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 26 | Had it not been for the critical response to her work at the time , she might now be recorded differently in our history books . |
| 27 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 28 | It might even have been handsome had it not been for the dark scowl that currently shadowed it . |
| 29 | The Socialist Government might have survived the crisis had it not been for the internal rift within the Labour Party that was brought about by the Cabinet 's decision to impose charges for medical prescriptions to curb excessive waste in the newly established National Health Service . |
| 30 | He records Smart 's statement that he ‘ must have finished an unfortunate life in jail had it not been for the good nature of a Friend , who could not bear to see his tears ’ . |