Example sentences of "be [pron] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Are you up for all this ? ’
2 Are you here for good ?
3 And she would say , ‘ How long are you here for this time ? ’ praying it would be weeks instead of days … .
4 Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ?
5 Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive .
6 Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’
7 Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language .
8 Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken .
9 Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered .
10 Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language .
11 There 's nothing here for grieving .
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