Example sentences of "be [pron] not for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary . |
| 2 | And all of this would be fine , were it not for the questions raised by their art itself . |
| 3 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 4 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 5 | This was in fact , the state in which he thought er animals er existed , and it was the condition to which he believed humans beings would be reduced , were it not for the mechanisms that maintain social order . |
| 6 | It should be pointed out , though , that were it not for the attacks through evolutionary time of these herbivores , there would be none of the commercially significant heartwoods , latexes and resins so useful to humans . |
| 7 | Were it not for the tides , it is hard to see how salt marsh could exist at all . |
| 8 | In addition , the constant incursion and retreat of the sea creates and maintains vast zones that are neither wholly marine , nor wholly freshwater , nor wholly land-based ; intertidal zones that vary in width , between spring tides and neap , and which could not persist , or would not exist at all , were it not for the tides . |
| 9 | Salt marshes , too , would not exist were it not for the tides . |
| 10 | It is hard to envisage how an ecosystem such as that of the mud-flats could be maintained , were it not for the tides . |