Example sentences of "it [be] [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 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 3 | " Well , it 's not for any outsider to say , " remarked Alice . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it 's not for this boy . |
| 5 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 6 | First , a careful search ( takes 10 Turns ) of the alchemical section turns up two works of note : De Lapis Philosophorum in Bretonnian , and the small and quirky Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic ) ; the latter needs an I test to find it unless the adventurers know that it 's here for some reason . |
| 7 | Still it 's only for another day . |
| 8 | Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is probably for this reason that Exeter services have not attracted the baleful glare of publicity . |
| 13 | It is mainly for these reasons that MLU and the stages identified by Brown have subsequently found such wide accept-ance among academic researchers and practitioners ( see Table 7.1 ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is precisely for such reasons that organisations have sought to develop long-term relationships with them . |
| 15 | It is precisely for that reason that trust status will be a more successful means of managing the health service . |
| 16 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 17 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 18 | It is perhaps for these reasons that there is little tangible evidence showing any measurable reduction in loss of fire damage to contents or structures . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was principally for that purpose the Task Force was conceived . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 25 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 26 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |