Example sentences of "it was not for [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it was n't for real … the students of the Oxford University Union were getting their new season under way . |
| 2 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 3 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 4 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 5 | No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up . |
| 6 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd be alive today if it was n't for that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't be a cook if it was n't for that . |
| 9 | ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars ! |
| 10 | He then pointed to his helmet and was heard to say ‘ If it was n't for that I 'd be dead . ’ |
| 11 | If it was n't for that I 'd I so , ca n't get what I should of done . |
| 12 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |
| 13 | If it was n't for this we could be it would be quite good . |
| 14 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 15 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 16 | This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear . |
| 17 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 18 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 20 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 21 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 22 | It was not for professional designers . ’ |
| 23 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 24 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 25 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 26 | The cutting down of the scrub was merely to facilitate the minimal use by the goats — it was not for any wider purpose . |
| 27 | My daughter would not be here if it was not for orthodox medicine but I do believe her condition has been improved by homeopathy . ’ |
| 28 | It was not for this reason alone , fundamental though it is , that Phyllis Deane has written of canals that they were " of the essence of the industrial revolution " . |
| 29 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 30 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |