Example sentences of "n't been for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 2 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 3 | The Flying Scot would probably have made the move before now — if it had n't been for a pact Laughton made when he left Widnes sixteen months ago . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 5 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 6 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 7 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 8 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 9 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 10 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
| 11 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 12 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
| 13 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 14 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 15 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 16 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 17 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 18 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 19 | However none of these exhibitions could have happened if it had n't been for the groundbreaking work carried out by Lubaina Himid since the late 70s . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 21 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 22 | She would have rung him , if it had n't been for the tall constable standing meaningfully by the telephone . |
| 23 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 25 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 26 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 27 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 29 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 30 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |