Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 2 | Some like it not |
| 3 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 4 | All might still have been well had it not been for yet another unfortunate circumstance . |
| 5 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 8 | This could have been unintentionally hilarious had it not been so dreary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That puts it not unto the Touch , |
| 11 | This is a revolution that might have gone unnoticed had it not been so swift and successful . |
| 12 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 13 | This openness and variation in level of the track , now giving views over a mile or so of green tree-crowns , now limiting the sky and showing on every side a steeply climbing hillside of columns , would have made their walking pleasant had it not been for the unseasonable heat of the day . |
| 14 | Kim pulled T'ai Cho down , then scrambled back , feeling the convected warmth of the gun 's discharge in the air , accompanied by a sharp , sweet scent that might almost have been pleasant had it not signalled something so deadly . |
| 15 | Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it . |
| 16 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 17 | His large eyes might have been girlish had it not been for his unusually heavy eyebrows . |
| 18 | This in itself would hardly have been significant had it not been for a wider transformation of the adult male working class . |
| 19 | It might even have been handsome had it not been for the dark scowl that currently shadowed it . |
| 20 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 21 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |