Example sentences of "be it not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 2 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 3 | Were it not for this fact of nature we would n't have our time-of-day language . |
| 4 | Were it not for human judgement and conscience being clouded by such a comfortable belief , and fears of retribution being removed by the further endowment of the ‘ god ’ with a power to forgive transgressions , many of the unwise human acts which lead on to unhappiness , would never have been undertaken . |
| 5 | Were it not for these he would not have produced any of the philosophy for which he is now remembered . |
| 6 | Were it not for these things there would not be the possibility of the time-of-day language . |
| 7 | In 1983 , the governing Conservative Party in Britain was keen to point out that the rate of increase in unemployment from 1982 to 1983 was higher in the United States , Germany , the Netherlands , and Canada than it was in the United Kingdom ( a 23.1% increase in the United States compared with 11.8% in the United Kingdom ) and that unemployment would be higher in other countries were it not in some cases for conscription and a retirement age for men of 60 . |
| 8 | Was it not with those who sinned ? |