Example sentences of "be for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 2 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 3 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 5 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 7 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 8 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 9 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 10 | Officials said yesterday that Robert Lock , 29 , from Cambridge , had been on remand after a court hearing last week when police detected the heroin , believed to be for his own use . |
| 11 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 12 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's for his own good , ’ Dann put in . |
| 14 | His respect for other faiths is as strong as it is for his own faith . |
| 15 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 16 | This measurement was for his new uniform , she assured him , while his colleagues wolf-whistled and clapped . |
| 17 | The plan which Henry still had in mind was for his eldest son to take all of those lands which he himself had inherited from his father and mother , i.e. Anjou , Maine , Normandy and England , while Richard should have the land which he had acquired by virtue of his marriage to Eleanor . |
| 18 | First he pointed out his own editorial cubicle , then the adjacent one which he explained was for his personal assistant , Carmel Bedford . |
| 19 | But the cupboard in the corner , behind Rodney Shergold 's desk , was for his personal use . |
| 20 | Hagen 's iconoclasm was for his own benefit ; he never saw himself as a social campaigner on behalf of his fellow professionals . |
| 21 | His only concern was for his own men and for the standards and traditions he expected them to live up to . |
| 22 | Hurtled The plan was for his main chute to open at 3,000ft but it did not open and he hurtled to conclusion of the association 's investigation was that he had failed to locate the ripcord handle . |
| 23 | Without quantum theory there would be no genetic engineering , no solid-state computers , no nuclear power stations ( or bombs ) ; even Albert Einstein 's Nobel prize was for his pioneering contributions to quantum theory , not for his ideas on relativity . |