Example sentences of "[adv] [be] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The prices shown below are for yarns only . ) |
| 2 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 3 | ‘ He thinks the blacklist will only be for Liverpool , but he says he wo n't go until after Christmas . ’ |
| 4 | If the Ketterings had wanted another family to stand in for them , it could only be for recognition by someone they wished to avoid or who might be a danger to them . |
| 5 | ‘ It would only be for investigation , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison . |
| 7 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 8 | And perhaps their foolishness will make everyone understand that however much fun Home Alone is for children at the cinema it is fiction and can not be made real by acting it out . |
| 9 | I am going to do so and so , or I am going to the pictures or I , I 'm going to so and so 's for tea . |
| 10 | what I was interested in knowing in was for example whether he 's got his chamber orchestra repeated their same concert five or six times in different cities |
| 11 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 13 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 14 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 15 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 16 | Had it not been for Helmut 's wealth and his travels , we should not have had anything like the variety of food Mme Guérigny put on her table . |
| 17 | Although the Church was slow off the mark following the population migration and concentration in the expanding towns during the Industrial Revolution , failure has not been for want of trying . |
| 18 | I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off . |
| 19 | Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still . |
| 20 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 21 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 22 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 23 | ‘ So , all in all , last year , I was quite ready to liquidate some of my American assets , and I would have done so , had it not been for Edouard . ’ |
| 24 | Roosevelt might nevertheless have got his way in 1943 , had it not been for developments inside France . |
| 25 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 26 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 27 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 28 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 29 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
| 30 | It does not seem unreasonable to suggest that Graham Gooch would never have got any further than being Ted Dexter 's favourite wet fish had it not been for Fletcher 's overwhelming if understated influence . |