Example sentences of "not been for the [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 . |