Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I not been with Matt and Tony I would n't have considered setting foot inside the level . |
| 2 | But I could n't bear … just could n't bear … the idea of her being alive and me not being with her … ’ |
| 3 | Has she not been to her daughter 's ? |
| 4 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 5 | Have you not been to the toilet yet ? |
| 6 | I think that had you not been with me on the black nights I would have died . |
| 7 | ‘ Before you ses anythin' , ’ said Carrie as Willie stood up , crimson , ‘ we 've jest come to tell you that we 're miserable about you not being in our class and that we still wants you to come round with us like . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's only when he 's round the corner I mind him not being with me . |
| 9 | If pupils at school could study , say , chemistry , physics , and philosophy ; or mathematics , music , and philosophy , would they not be on the way to acquiring just that theoretical , critical , and general expertise that is needed ? |
| 10 | But , in terms of sport , might they not be on a healthier track than is New Zealand at the moment ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written |
| 13 | Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season . |
| 14 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 15 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 16 | Had it not been for the Cold War , these expectations might have been realized . |
| 17 | The Socialist Government might have survived the crisis had it not been for the internal rift within the Labour Party that was brought about by the Cabinet 's decision to impose charges for medical prescriptions to curb excessive waste in the newly established National Health Service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Death rates had also declined , though not as sharply , and had it not been for the inward migration of population in the 1930s the decline in population growth would have been more marked . |
| 20 | Even so , the number of those who believed that Hitler would have been one of the greatest German statesmen of all time had it not been for the war remained relatively high , though this figure too had fallen sharply ( from 48 per cent in 1955 to 32 per cent by 1967 ) . |
| 21 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 22 | Had it not been for the empty little bottle in the pocket of her skirt — which could so easily have been swept away by the waves — the fisherman 's description of the likely accident would have satisfied everyone . |
| 23 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably . |
| 27 | Had it not been for a diving goal-line clearance from Laws , who replaced Charles after 23 minutes , McClair might have had a second . |
| 28 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 29 | These protests may have been ignored had it not been for the enthusiasm of Hans-Dietrich Genscher for EMU : ‘ the creation of a single European monetary zone , with a European central bank , constitutes the economically indispensable centrepiece of a European single market ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed , the Minister of the Legation , Captain ( later Sir ) Vyvyan Holt , was later to say that he would not have survived one of their many forced marches in intense cold had it not been for Blake 's courage and help . |