Example sentences of "[verb] not [be] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 2 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 3 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 4 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 7 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |