Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [not/n't] been for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 2 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 3 | Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season . |
| 4 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 5 | the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written |
| 6 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 7 | Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored . |
| 8 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 9 | Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it . |
| 10 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
| 11 | We might have had it all , had it not been for that One . ’ |
| 12 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 13 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 14 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 15 | Had it not been for seasonal visitors , the list of locally popular dishes would have been depressingly brief ; burned steaks , fried fish , and barbecued chicken . |
| 16 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 17 | This time tomorrow it would be all over , and part of history ; the victors would be celebrating , the losers complaining that had it not been for this and that , they would have won , and the course of history would have been different . |
| 18 | Too bad the horrendous loading system leaves a nasty taste in the mouth — had it not been for this I 'd have cheerfully awarded around 85% ( disk owners take note ) . |
| 19 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 20 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |