Example sentences of "was [adv] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 2 | This was partly for the reasons given above , but also due to the very large Conservative majority in the hereditary House of Lords , which soon rejected a Liberal attempt to amend the 1902 Education Act . |
| 3 | This was partly for the reasons discussed in Chapter 3 : more elderly people and medical advances which enabled more of them to benefit from treatments like joint replacement at even more advanced ages . |
| 4 | It was now for the Tories to try to form a Government . |
| 5 | and it 's , no but here it 's only the holidays that really matter , if it was n't for the holidays I really would n't bother because here it really is so plotted out is n't it ? |
| 6 | yeah , completely , and erm and if it was n't for the holidays I 'd really think oh for God 's sake , bugger this , you know , I ca n't be bothered . |
| 7 | If it was n't for the boys practising with my golf club , I 'm sure it would have died . |
| 8 | And it was n't for the others ' safety . |
| 9 | I 'm sure if it was n't for the explosions close at hand he would have dropped off to sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ The public should be left in no doubt that if it was n't for the police patrol there would have been quite a few fatalities . |
| 11 | People would have lived happily if it was n't for the troubles instigated by the government and the Jewish Agency . ’ |
| 12 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 13 | If it was n't for the kids , I 'd probably be out there now doing something silly . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , if it was n't for the cuts , I 'd have had a permanent job by now . |
| 15 | The Ukraine 's first ‘ modern ’ computer-integrated manufacturing centre , using a broad range of equipment from IBM Corp , has been inaugurated in Kiev at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute , and while it was there for the ceremonies , IBM took the opportunity of establishing a Representative Office in Kiev , the first to be established outside Moscow in the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | The whole world , the whole of society was there for the comedians to plunder . |
| 17 | " I often thought it was maybe for the birds . |
| 18 | The extra 10 minutes allowed was evidently for the classes ( or the masters ) to move . |
| 19 | They claim it has been put in the story by the early Church , during the period of the oral tradition , to show that Jesus thought his mission was primarily for the Jews and not the Gentiles . |
| 20 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |