Example sentences of "[that] [was/were] [pron] [not/n't] for " 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 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 3 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 4 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 5 | It is strange to consider that were it not for the intervention of Conservative industrialists , the proposals in this Bill could have been far worse . |
| 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 . |