Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] for [adj] [noun] " 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 | " That 's just possible as an explanation , " said his wife , " if it were n't for one thing . " |
| 3 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's not for ethnic minorities , or ethnic majorities . |
| 6 | It 's not for real Stuart . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " Well , it 's not for any outsider to say , " remarked Alice . |
| 9 | ‘ No , Clive , ’ she screeched at him , ‘ it 's not for last time . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , it 's not for this boy . |
| 11 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 17 | I 'd have a lot more if it was n't for bloody death duties . ’ |
| 18 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 19 | I agreed , but pointed out that it was n't for little boys . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 24 | It was not for professional designers . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | My daughter would not be here if it was not for orthodox medicine but I do believe her condition has been improved by homeopathy . ’ |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |