Example sentences of "not been for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 4 | Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season . |
| 5 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 6 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 7 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 8 | St Joseph 's old boy Jim D'Avila , Labour 's candidate in Swindon at the last election , says his parents would have sent him elsewhere had it not been for subsidised transport . |
| 9 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 10 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 12 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 13 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 14 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 15 | She ai n't been for long while has she ? |
| 16 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 17 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 18 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |