Example sentences of "[not/n't] [been] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for the I.M.F . |
| 2 | The two sides might have parted company there and then had it not been for the GLEB 's condition that someone with newspaper business experience should be on the executive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Had it not been for the EPA relaxation of the ozone standard from 0.08 to 0.12 ppm in February 1979 , following strong pressure from the petroleum industry , many more tens of millions of people would be regarded as living in areas with unacceptable air quality . |
| 5 | The pleas for conservative guards might have died away had it not been for the Bristol riots which broke out on 29 October and raged for three days . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 7 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 8 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 9 | Interestingly , the place where this question has been raised most insistently has not been in the GATT or in Brussels , but in the American courts . |
| 10 | I have n't been to a Leeds match for absolutely ages and could do with any info on getting hold of tickets , which parts of the ground need tickets and the best places to stand/sit … and park the car etc . |
| 11 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 13 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 17 | Okay , it is often argued that , I mean this is the principal reason why agricultural trade has n't been in the GATT negotiations , because agricultural er , protectionism has been enshrined in domestic agricultural policy , govern policy makers will say , we are protecting er , our own domestic industries right , because we , because of er , erm , deleterious effects that would be imposed , or the burdens that would be imposed on domestic agriculture if we did n't , we do n't think that the fabric of the rural society could withstand the reversion to laissez faire in agricultural goods . |