Example sentences of "it be [adv] for this [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 | ‘ Well , it 's not for this boy . |
| 3 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 4 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 5 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 6 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 7 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 8 | Indeed , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could state that the French nobility did not regard fighting at sea as being a noble activity : it is perhaps for this reason that naval warfare did not feature in the chronicles in the way that war on land did . |
| 9 | It is perhaps for this reason that a Code of Practice was issued by the Secretary of State for the Environment in 1981 which requires that authorities produce a minimum number of specified unit cost statistics . |
| 10 | It is perhaps for this reason that the Court of Appeal in Faccenda left open the question as to whether an employee could sell the information which was comprised in the skills acquired in the course of employment which he could not be prevented from using himself . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |