Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |
| 2 | It was principally for that purpose the Task Force was conceived . ’ |
| 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 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 5 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 6 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |
| 14 | But it was probably for another reason that Mahmoud had called on him . |
| 15 | It was probably for this reason that we missed some of the more esoteric waders like broad-billed sandpiper and jack snipe which are known to nest in this area . |
| 16 | It was probably for this reason that the parish registers were not fully established until the reign of Elizabeth I , the fear of taxation and also that the clergy of this period had a dislike of statistics and generally met the injunction by a policy of passive resistance . |
| 17 | On most occasions when mass demonstrations took place there were clashes with the police and it was primarily for this reason that the Labour Party and the TUC tried to discourage such a form of protest . |
| 18 | But it was precisely for that reason that they were likely to lose . |
| 19 | It was precisely for this purpose that the United States Government obstructed the carrying out of the Moscow Agreement on Korea , which envisaged the speediest creation of an independent Korean democratic State . |
| 20 | It was initially for this reason that fieldwork in Andersonstown was delegated to one of the informants , while Harris himself carried out the Braniel study . |
| 21 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 22 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 23 | It was only for another week . |
| 24 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |