Example sentences of "n't be for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 2 | The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago . |
| 3 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 4 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
| 5 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 6 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 7 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 10 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for the case , I think perhaps … ’ |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 13 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 14 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 15 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 16 | If it had n't been for the war , they 'd have retired him , but it was like everything else these days , all hands to the pumps . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 18 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 19 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 20 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 21 | If it had n't been for the fact that her stomach chose that precise moment to rumble loudly she might still have argued . |
| 22 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd never have known , if it had n't been for the tissue-typing , ’ Celia pointed out . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 25 | And it wo n't be for a while . |
| 26 | ‘ But that should n't be for a while , they 're not calling the twenties up yet … |
| 27 | I 've told her I 'll see her at the funeral , though I suppose it wo n't be for a while . |
| 28 | But it wo n't be for a while |
| 29 | I do n't know how well we will do it , but it wo n't be for the want of trying . ’ |
| 30 | It ca n't be for the money . |