Example sentences of "[adv] [been] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 2 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 3 | Britain 's Jackie Stewart carried on where Clark left off and , had it not been for a decision to retire early , could have dominated the sport longer than he did , and could well have added to his collection of three world titles . |
| 4 | them two have not been for a while so they 've crossed off so , you have another |
| 5 | Well the window cleaner 's not been for a while has he ? |
| 6 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 7 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 8 | And the inspector , would in all probability have upheld the refusal , had it not been for the withdrawal , three days before the appeal , of the highways ' reasons for the refusal . |
| 9 | If it had not been for the circumstance of his being away , I should not be here now . ’ |
| 10 | Reports on Nov. 12 said that US officials had confirmed that the final percentage of Warsaw Pact weapons cuts would have been higher had it not been for the removal of large numbers of Soviet tanks and other heavy arms across the Ural Mountains to areas where they were not covered by the Treaty provisions . |
| 11 | The sentiment indicator would have fallen even further in December , the survey showed , had it not been for the glimmer of recovery in Britain . |
| 12 | And I stumbled and would have fallen had it not been for the wall . ’ |
| 13 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 14 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 15 | If it had not been for the shamelessness of it , Wilson felt she might have been sorely tempted to exploit this extraordinary advantage . |
| 16 | Indeed , full recovery might never have occurred had it not been for the invasion of the area by the Lombards , the people after whom the plain on which the city is set and the region of which it is the capital are named . |
| 17 | Had it not been for the guillotine debate , for the way in which the Government put the pressure on , for the way in which they shepherded all the sheep , ministerial and other , through the Lobbies , we would not be here today . |
| 18 | These protests may have been ignored had it not been for the enthusiasm of Hans-Dietrich Genscher for EMU : ‘ the creation of a single European monetary zone , with a European central bank , constitutes the economically indispensable centrepiece of a European single market ’ . |
| 19 | Had it not been for the enthusiasm and energy of the St Andrews Friends , that Garden might well have had to close , but now it is a thriving and greatly appreciated asset to the town and to a wider community . |
| 20 | Had it not been for the smell of pot he might have suspected it . |
| 21 | Lewis 's statement , which wrote off the competition , was allowed to pass unnoticed , and the whole embarrassing affair , much to the Government 's relief , might well be forgotten had it not been for the persistence of Beresford Hope . |
| 22 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 23 | Price Waterhouse 's UK practice would have experienced a negative growth rate in fee income in the year to June 1992 , if it had not been for the firm 's corporate recovery arm . |
| 24 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 25 | Those clients whom we estimated as least likely to have remained at home had it not been for the Home Support Project were , as expected , particularly heavy consumers of community services . |
| 26 | In c.1308 it was even suggested that some Gascons , especially from the Agenais , might have rebelled openly against their duke had it not been for the existence of French sovereign jurisdiction as a kind of safety valve . |
| 27 | Seen from below , Lacuna 's long body would have looked comical as she ran back and forth , if it had not been for the grimace of rage that contorted her white face . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Had it not been for the section , the court was of the view that the claim would have been defeated by volenti . |
| 30 | Balassa 's ( 1987 ) " anti-monde " was derived using the assumption that the income elasticity of demand would have remained constant had it not been for the effect of economic integration . |