Example sentences of "[coord] had it not " in BNC.

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1 Death rates had also declined , though not as sharply , and had it not been for the inward migration of population in the 1930s the decline in population growth would have been more marked .
2 Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably .
3 The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that .
4 It was just as well , she thought ruefully , that he was an easy , undemanding companion , and had it not been for the throbbing behind her eyes she might have considered the evening pleasant enough .
5 After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’
6 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 .
7 But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked .
8 But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ?
9 SEGA brought Night Trap before the Board voluntarily , but had it not done so the game would have been made a test case .
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