Example sentences of "[been] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 2 | IF THE PLAN has been for the Europeans not to show their strongest hands in the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn , which takes its name from one of the sweeping bends in the Mississipi River , much has gone according to plan . |
| 3 | The buildings on either side would have been for the slaves and workshops , the bath-house and latrines . |
| 4 | ‘ If it had not been for the difficulties and bruises caused by the recession , I have no doubt there would be an increased majority for the Conservative Party , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 6 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 7 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 8 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 9 | The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 11 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 12 | They were sturdy beggars , Hugh told them , a sort of people rarely found in the forest , vermin whom the verderers would have been well able to control without an expedition had it not been for the outlaws . |
| 13 | The Bolton area health authority was forced to reveal his identity after he was named in local newspapers , and its chief executive , Richard Sutherland , said last night : ‘ Our first concern has been for the patients involved . |
| 14 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 15 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably . |
| 17 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 18 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |
| 19 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 20 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |