Example sentences of "[adv] [been] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 32 | He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’ |
| 33 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 34 | But he does all this at the cost of suspending a due sense of the tendency there has also been for poets to see further than their noses , and to speak out , and to go to the wall for it . |
| 35 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 36 | If it had n't been for Müller . |
| 37 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 38 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 39 | She said no she said we have n't been for ages . |
| 40 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 41 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 42 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 43 | ‘ He would have been , ’ said Ruth , ‘ if it had n't been for Sarah . ’ |
| 44 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 45 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 46 | If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise . |
| 47 | His wife , who was an invalid at the time , told the Sun ‘ If it had n't been for state benefit and my family , Jade and I would have starved . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 49 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 50 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 51 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 52 | If it had n't been for Matthew — " She bit her lip , and then continued a moment later , " It was odd how I met him . |
| 53 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |
| 54 | If it had n't been for Kurt I would have done . |
| 55 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 56 | If it had n't been for George , Lennie would have probably lived unhappily and I doubt that he would have never received the love and care from anyone else . |
| 57 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 58 | If it had n't been for Desmond she would never have got through them . |
| 59 | ‘ I saw exactly what he did and if it had n't been for Stuart those thieves would have got away . |
| 60 | If it had n't been for Lotta 's appearance on the scene , who knew how badly the walls of her own citadel might have been rocked by the forceful vibes he 'd transmitted ? |