Example sentences of "it [be] [not/n't] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out . |
| 10 | he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a |
| 11 | ‘ Begob , Myles , I 'd be a more frequent visitor if it was n't for these stairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was not for another year , in the midst of another crisis , that a conclusion was finally reached . |