Example sentences of "not be for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for their masks , the Phantasms ' faces must surely have blistered — a gulf of rising furnace-air yawned beyond that hatch . |
| 2 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 3 | She would have welcomed both had it not been for her vow of return . |
| 4 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 5 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 6 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 7 | Your agent on Belial also murdered Federique Moshe-Rabaan in an attempt to divert Adjudicator Bishop 's suspicions : an attempt which would have succeeded had it not been for my , ’ and he preened himself , ‘ abilities at detection . |
| 8 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 9 | Rod has told Buerk in a letter : ‘ Had it not been for your series I would probably have gone to bed and not woken up . ’ |
| 10 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 11 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 12 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 13 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 14 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 15 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 16 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 17 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 18 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 19 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 20 | His large eyes might have been girlish had it not been for his unusually heavy eyebrows . |
| 21 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 22 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There would also have been no organization to employ me had it not been for our foresisters at the turn of the century . |
| 25 | Paul Lissek , the German coach , said : ‘ We would n't have won the gold medals in the Barcelona Olympics had it not been for our involvement in indoor hockey . ’ |