Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 2 | ‘ If it had not been for the difficulties and bruises caused by the recession , I have no doubt there would be an increased majority for the Conservative Party , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 4 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 5 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 6 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 7 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 8 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |