用were it not for造句子，“were it not for”造句

The Netherlands would not be the centre of the global flower trade were it not for Schiphol airport.

He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

Still just about possible were it not for the need to get "almost to the motorway" before returning for Ginny's diary.

Intimacy is thus a fire of righteous purification, a fire we could never tolerate were it not for the assurance that we are loved...

The Netherlands would not be the natural first choice for anyone starting a flower-growing business today were it not for the fact that the business is already there.

And so it might have been were it not for a short man, swathed in saffron robes and a black felt hat waving his arms around and shouting: "Terrorism!"

I should be without pence were it not for his assistance.

Somalia would be little noticed were it not for its fastest-growing industry: piracy.

The Reserve Bank of India would have raised interest rates more aggressively last year were it not for political pressure.

The score could have been a whitewash for the Czechs were it not for some excellent goalkeeping from Chelsea's Petr Cech and some poor finishing from Ghana.

This would be surprising were it not for the fact, so visible from above, that the world is still a sparsely populated place.

"Over the years, he" s had to hassle with the simplest of design flaws that would cost virtually nothing to fix were it not for the bureaucracies that entrenched them.

I should be lonely, were it not for the birds and the flowers.

For all its strengths Java might have gone unnoticed-- as half a dozen equally modern languages have -- were it not for the novel way Sun released it.

A river would not be one and the same river were it not for the fact that the water fowling in it is always changing, as are the river Banks and even the course of the river.

But we should remember, that the most prosperous and stable countries in the world, the Nordic states, wouldn't be what they are today were it not for their socialist inspirations.

I argued that it was not so trivial, that were it not for the precious accident of the train schedule, I would be in prison or dead.

Employment has actually fallen since the end of the recession; and unemployment would be even higher than it is were it not for discouraged would-be jobseekers quitting the workforce.

Japanese imperialism could not have become so blatant in its aggression were it not for this pack of traitors.

Still, were it not for the nameless adventure that awaited them they would have thrown a pair of dice each evening and agreed that two sixes would end it all.

Arrows would continue to fly forward forever in a straight line were it not for gravity, which brings them down to earth.

This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors.

Travel between star systems would be impossible were it not for the development of the revolutionary hyperdrive propulsion system.