Example sentences of "[been] for [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 2 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 3 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 4 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 5 | His wife , who was an invalid at the time , told the Sun ‘ If it had n't been for state benefit and my family , Jade and I would have starved . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 7 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 8 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 9 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top . |
| 12 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 16 | Selection has been for growth potential ; the average 400-day weight of bulls is 447kg and their mature weight 966kg , with an average withers height of 140cm ( the breed minimum is 132cm ) . |
| 17 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 18 | The ceremony will be a bitter-sweet reminder of what might have been for Princess Margaret , forbidden from marrying her divorced sweetheart Peter Townsend . |
| 19 | The most dramatic rise in cautioning in England and Wales has been for adult offenders . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |
| 21 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
| 22 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 23 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |