Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [not/n't] for [art] fact " in BNC.
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| 31 | Why , Leith thought bracingly , were it not for the fact that Rosemary had chosen that weekend to visit her parents in Hazelbury , then Rosemary would probably be in her flat with her drinking coffee right now . |
| 32 | Roxburgh 's observation that high expectation can be dangerous might have carried more weight were it not for the fact that nobody appears to have a loftier opinion of Ferguson than the 21-year-old himself . |
| 33 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 34 | I would pause to wipe away a tear or two of my own at this point were it not for the fact that the dear departed , otherwise Rory Underwood , has decided not to depart . |