Example sentences of "be for [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 2 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 5 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 6 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 7 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 8 | Even so , she had tied her hair back and simply slammed it on top of her head , If it had n't been for the few feminine wisps that escaped to frame that beautiful face she would have looked forbidding . |
| 9 | Note that the values which have been supplied above are for a typical medium-sized installation . |
| 10 | The open-form torsion angles are observed values for the phospho-free state of HPr ; the closed-form torsion angles of Ala16 are for the modelled phosphorylated state of HPr . |
| 11 | To be for a democratic united Europe means to be unambiguously against its current economic reality — and most immediately against the policies dictated by the ERM . |
| 12 | This arrangement is not popular with staff and should therefore be for a predetermined limited period . |
| 13 | Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst . |
| 14 | They include an original maturity of no more than 187 days , be payable within the UK and be for an identifiable underlying trade transaction . |
| 15 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 18 | The Russian Congress , constituted as a result of elections in March [ see p. 37322 , where the elections are stated wrongly to be for the Russian Supreme Soviet ] and comprising 1,068 deputies , convened on May 16 . |
| 19 | and of course if you want to include a small element this year a greater element would be for the new open plan . |
| 20 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , HP , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Labs and OSF — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an API that Tivoli has already offered up for their use ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 21 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and the Open Software Foundation — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an Application Programming Interface that Tivoli has already offered up for their use . |
| 22 | Caterham is as ready as it can be for the single European market , which is of critical importance since 60% of its production is exported . |
| 23 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 24 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 25 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 26 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 27 | When Sarazen went to Prince 's for the 1932 Open , Daniels was well into his sixties , and had been seriously ill . |
| 28 | The following explanation is for a 4-bit serial shift register . |
| 29 | When children recognise that their writing is for a real public audience , not just the teacher but other people , they are more likely to be concerned with their spelling . |
| 30 | The most frequent plea we hear from readers is for a no-fuss dinner-party menu . |