Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 2 | I am inclined to back Alexander 's argument that grouping would occur in most predated species if it were not for additional factors dispersing the individuals in relation to their food supply . |
| 3 | It 's not for ethnic minorities , or ethnic majorities . |
| 4 | ‘ Please note that if I commit suicide today … it is not for economic reasons ( for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means , even refusing jobs ) but for political reasons . |
| 5 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 8 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was not for professional designers . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |