Example sentences of "but for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asterix might never have been born but for a chance meeting in 1951 with another cartoonist , Rene Goscinny , at the Paris offices of a Belgian newspaper syndicate . |
| 2 | Tried to cross the nighted ferry ; might 've made it but for a district-nurse calling unexpectedly . ’ |
| 3 | 1.14 " Working day " means any day on which clearing banks in the City of London are ( or would be but for a strike lock-out or other stoppage affecting such banks generally ) open during banking hours and " working days " shall be construed accordingly |
| 4 | Today , for example , was the seventy-fifth birthday of the brassiere ; but for a Sun feature called ‘ All Our Breasterdays ’ he would not have known this . |
| 5 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 6 | but for a while you have |
| 7 | ‘ What 's happened ? ’ she said , but for a while Lucy could only shake her head . |
| 8 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 9 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 10 | Much better to be untruthful and leave Laura thinking that but for a migraine , they might have spent the night together . |
| 11 | In fact , ’ she sighed , ‘ but for a couple of things , everything would be absolutely perfect . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 13 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 14 | The jobs toll could have hit 6,000 but for a £295 million deal clinched with Taiwan Aerospace . |
| 15 | Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ They might have suspected me , I suppose , but for a number of lucky circumstances . |
| 17 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 18 | With 20 minutes gone , his debut might have entered the dream category but for a fingertip save from Andy Goram . |
| 19 | Daly would be with him but for a paperwork problem , and is in Harrogate Town where Frank Gray is manager now . |
| 20 | From childhood to grave , come rain or shine , joy or sorrow , but for a miracle , you yourself would have worn such garb to keep out the cold , the heat and the rain . |
| 21 | This might not seem small in petrol engine terms but for a diesel it is quite dinky . |
| 22 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 23 | But for a time I could not do that to Georg . |
| 24 | For instance , nationalisation of basic industries could be advocated both from a Keynesian and a socialist viewpoint , but for a Keynesian it was not an initial step preparatory to full common ownership of the means of production , distribution and exchange , but a pragmatic move to enable the economy to be run more efficiently . |