Example sentences of "[not/n't] been for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 2 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 3 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 4 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |
| 5 | This is a good example of a local commemoration which almost slipped through the net , had it not been for the sleuthing abilities of north east enthusiast David Thompson . |
| 6 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 7 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 9 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |