Example sentences of "[adv] be for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 2 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 3 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 4 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 5 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 6 | Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ . |
| 7 | If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists . |
| 8 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 9 | Nor would she have been , if it had not been for him . |
| 10 | Had it not been for him and his colleagues at the National Trust many old and historical buildings would have suffered . |
| 11 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 12 | If it had not been for him we would all be dead and there would n't be anybody telling this . |
| 13 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 14 | It had not been for her . |
| 15 | Had it not been for their masks , the Phantasms ' faces must surely have blistered — a gulf of rising furnace-air yawned beyond that hatch . |
| 16 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 17 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 18 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 19 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 20 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 21 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 22 | Your agent on Belial also murdered Federique Moshe-Rabaan in an attempt to divert Adjudicator Bishop 's suspicions : an attempt which would have succeeded had it not been for my , ’ and he preened himself , ‘ abilities at detection . |
| 23 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 24 | Rod has told Buerk in a letter : ‘ Had it not been for your series I would probably have gone to bed and not woken up . ’ |
| 25 | not been for anything else yet |
| 26 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 27 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 28 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 29 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 30 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |