Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not been for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 2 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 3 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 4 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 5 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 6 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 7 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 8 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 9 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 10 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 13 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 14 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 15 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |