Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 3 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 5 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |