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 . |