Example sentences of "[not/n't] be for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for their masks , the Phantasms ' faces must surely have blistered — a gulf of rising furnace-air yawned beyond that hatch . |
| 2 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 3 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 4 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 5 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 6 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 7 | Your agent on Belial also murdered Federique Moshe-Rabaan in an attempt to divert Adjudicator Bishop 's suspicions : an attempt which would have succeeded had it not been for my , ’ and he preened himself , ‘ abilities at detection . |
| 8 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 9 | Rod has told Buerk in a letter : ‘ Had it not been for your series I would probably have gone to bed and not woken up . ’ |
| 10 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 11 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 12 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 13 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 14 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 15 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 16 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 17 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 18 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 19 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 20 | His large eyes might have been girlish had it not been for his unusually heavy eyebrows . |
| 21 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 22 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 23 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 24 | There would also have been no organization to employ me had it not been for our foresisters at the turn of the century . |
| 25 | Paul Lissek , the German coach , said : ‘ We would n't have won the gold medals in the Barcelona Olympics had it not been for our involvement in indoor hockey . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 27 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 29 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 30 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |