Example sentences of "not [be] for [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |