Example sentences of "was not for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was not for the Grand Slam tournaments and the unique place they hold in the game , I am sure we would be losing this vital battle . ’ |
| 2 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 3 | The biggest cheer in this race , however , was not for the winner , it was for Barry Wright , who finished last of the four on top weight Midnight Madness . |
| 4 | It was not for the Government to pull the plug on a venture which was running and had cost Mr Murdoch ‘ vast amounts of money ’ . |
| 5 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 6 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 7 | The unhappiness was not for the shop , but for a lady who was employed by Mr Bacon on a part-time basis , and the lady was my aunt Mary . |
| 8 | The only thing he and Rangers lacked was a goal , but it was not for the want of trying . |
| 9 | When he recovered , he had experienced conversion , and from that time on he refused all offers of writing work that was not for the glory of God . |
| 10 | Housewife Rita Davis , of Ilford , Essex , said : ‘ We would never have known what our taxes are going on if it was not for the Mirror . ’ |
| 11 | Cold , claustrophobic rhythms stripped of humanity and humour and performed with a complete disregard for such niceties as , well , performance , LFO 's brief appearance was not for the faint-hearted . |
| 12 | The building was not for the new owner , but for a manager , or a bailiff . |
| 13 | The job was not for the squeamish . |
| 14 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 15 | It was not for the court to manipulate the sentence ; this was a matter for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of mercy . |
| 16 | Never a great footballing side , if it was not for the fact that they are in the same League as Athletico Whaddon , they would probably be known as the Athletico Whaddon of Division Three . |
| 17 | This now was not for the Seven . |
| 18 | Shildon had excused his initial omissions on the grounds that he had concealed that he was engaged in work which was not for the business section . |
| 19 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 20 | It was as if they realised that she was not for the rough and tumble of this world , like the aggressive women with shaggy hair styles who pushed their way through life thrusting their hard shopping baskets at defenceless men . |
| 21 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 22 | Throughout these painful exchanges , the King had remained at Sandringham ; it was not for the sovereign to intervene between one faction of the Cabinet and another . |
| 23 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 24 | Without in any way making light of the distress of the parents of Tony Bland , it is very important to keep a firm hold of the fact that Tony himself was not reported to be in any pain or distress ; so any change in the treatment he was receiving was not for the purpose of relieving acute suffering of the patient . |
| 25 | If it was not for the Leeds fans and manager Howard Wilkinson I would not have got anywhere near this . |
| 26 | He had withdrawn early with his guests , for they were bent on leaving next morning , and their business with him was not for the openness of the hall . |