Example sentences of "[been] [adj] but for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 2 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 3 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 4 | The fare increases would have been bigger but for the governments last minute intervention . |
| 5 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 6 | By 1719 there were eleven , a figure which would have been higher but for the continuing war with Sweden and the very strained relations with Great Britain which then existed . |
| 7 | Doubtless the number of victims of this particular form of surgical homicide would have been greater but for the American Food and Drug Administration , whose officials promptly and wisely proscribed the procedure . |
| 8 | Ironically , the number of old people who were poor would have been greater but for the action of the Attlee Government . |