Example sentences of "be for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 2 | ( Or groundsperson , as you quickly modified it to , though let me assure you grateful as I am for your awareness of the issues involved that I have no simplistic sensibilities to be offended in this area . ) |
| 3 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |
| 4 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 5 | Had it not been for their masks , the Phantasms ' faces must surely have blistered — a gulf of rising furnace-air yawned beyond that hatch . |
| 6 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 7 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
| 8 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 9 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 10 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 11 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 12 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 13 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 14 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 15 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 16 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 17 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 18 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 19 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 20 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 21 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 22 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 23 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 24 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 25 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 26 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 27 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 28 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 29 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 30 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |