Example sentences of "[verb] it [not/n't] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still . |
| 2 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 3 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’ |
| 6 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 7 | For example , he is showing the Metropolitan 's ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , although he would also have borrowed the one recently auctioned at Christie 's and bought by the Getty Museum , had it not been in restoration . |