Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 3 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 4 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 5 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 6 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 7 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 8 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 15 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 16 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 17 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 18 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 19 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 20 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 21 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise . |
| 23 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 24 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 25 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 26 | ‘ He would have been , ’ said Ruth , ‘ if it had n't been for Sarah . ’ |
| 27 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 28 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 30 | If it had n't been for Müller . |