Example sentences of "[be] for [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 2 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 3 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 4 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 5 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 6 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 7 | It is true that there are some fringe benefits available to farm workers ( as there are for many occupational groups ) , but their value amounted to only an estimated £1 per week for free food and a net £2 per week for low-rent tied cottages ( Brown and Winyard 1975 ) . |
| 8 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 9 | In the common case where the act or neglect of the defendant and the injury to the plaintiff are for all practical purposes contemporaneous , the duty attaches to the defendant and is breached when the act or neglect occurs . … |
| 10 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
| 11 | The actual selection and number of participating banks depends upon the loan 's size ( some are for several billion dollars ) and any special relationships between banks , e.g. consortium banks and clubs . |
| 12 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 13 | Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part . |
| 14 | If she was going to decline Mr O'Hara 's proposal , it was going to be for that very reason . |
| 15 | What environmentalists are concerned about is the fear that in spite of a clay lining — dangerous waste from the site will eventually leak through the porous chalk below and into the groundwater — though that may not be for another fifty years . |
| 16 | What justification can there be for another academic article at such a moment ? |
| 17 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 18 | The only way to get rid of it would be for enough Tory MPs to join with the Opposition parties to throw it out . |
| 19 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 20 | I shall then draw on my own experience to explore which of these two approaches seems to offer the best way forward , and consider what the implications might be for any future evaluation . |
| 21 | To assist the debate many local Law Societies , notably Birmingham and Manchester , have agreed with the local county court what the appropriate rate of charge should be for any particular area , for any particular year , and the courts apply those rates . |
| 22 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 23 | I mean anyone who comes into contact with foreigners , and them trying to grasp our language , knows you know has an insight into how difficult into how difficult it can be for some some people . |
| 24 | As a result , many men who in law ranked as tenants were for most practical purposes the de facio owners . |
| 25 | Section fifty four A makes your local plan structure plans extremely important governors on what happens on the ground and it 's for that underlying reason that we find E two unjustified and reasonably repressive and an unreasonable extension of constraint by the county on the freedom of districts in their local plans to choose the geography of their of land allocations . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's for that little slip of a thing at the end . ’ |
| 27 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 28 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 29 | It is for that alleged breach of the orders that he is due to appear before a judge and jury in Middlesbrough on Monday . |
| 30 | It is for that difficult time of year , coming out of winter and into spring , that Charnos provide the ideal answer with their new semi-opaques . |