Example sentences of "not [be] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job of supervising health policy for Scotland 's largest heath authority has not been without its difficulties . |
| 2 | That adjustment has not been without its advantages , in fact . |
| 3 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 4 | Her sudden , almost overnight , success had not been without its problems however . |
| 5 | The rapid increase in home ownership has not been without its problems . |
| 6 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 7 | Of course AMV has not been without its critics . |
| 8 | However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation . |
| 9 | His own childhood , though markedly less strenuous , less arduous than Liz 's , had not been without its privations , its humiliations . |
| 10 | Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains . |
| 11 | The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama . |
| 12 | Had it not been for their masks , the Phantasms ' faces must surely have blistered — a gulf of rising furnace-air yawned beyond that hatch . |
| 13 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 14 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 15 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 16 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 17 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 18 | Rod has told Buerk in a letter : ‘ Had it not been for your series I would probably have gone to bed and not woken up . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 21 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 22 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 23 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 24 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 25 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 26 | Paul Lissek , the German coach , said : ‘ We would n't have won the gold medals in the Barcelona Olympics had it not been for our involvement in indoor hockey . ’ |
| 27 | There would also have been no organization to employ me had it not been for our foresisters at the turn of the century . |
| 28 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 29 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 30 | You 've not been at your work . |