Example sentences of "have [pron] [been] no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 2 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 3 | On the other hand there is much reason to suppose that , had there been no major threat to the Eurasian balance of power , trade and other economic differences would have been the most prominent issue , particularly if those in the United States who favoured multilateral and freer trade had gained sufficient backing for their policies at home . |
| 4 | No doubt the proposition : ‘ Had there been no Siberian sable , there would have been no Muscovite empire ’ , is somewhat fanciful , but there is no gainsaying metropolitan Russia 's early economic dependence on the resources of her Siberian possessions . |
| 5 | Furthermore the sheer intensity and persistence of American pressure on Britain hardly suggests that Eisenhower 's policy would have been very different had there been no presidential election at the beginning of November . |
| 6 | Gollancz held that " had there been no Left Book Club there would have been no Bridgwater " . |