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Art: I'm going to be straight with you. If it weren't for me, you're still be in that underpass.

Hans is the only one of us who has a sweet tooth. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't bother making puddings at all.

The feat would qualify as creation of life in a test tube if it weren't for one thing: Szostak's lab does not rely much on test tubes.

L: To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price.

My marriage is an utter failure. If it weren't for the children. I think I'd just cut and run.

And it might have been impossible if it weren't for help from some of Santa's friends.

How did you know those weren't for his mother-in-law?

Still, one early employee told us that if it weren't for Lefkofsky's backing, he never would have joined The Point.

Yes, they ran off with my bag and all my credit cards, but I never would have known to visit Charlottenburg Palace if it weren't for them.

That's okay. If it weren't for you accountants, nobody would have the money to go skiing!

Vacations give you an opportunity to be who you really would be if it weren't for all the things we as adults have to do.

If it weren't for this, the government would be unable to borrow as much as it is, and would have to slash public services right now.

Unfortunately, if it weren't for the tile floor, tomorrow's picture would be even harder to understand.

"Chinatown might have disappeared if it weren't for the changing immigration policies, " he told me recently.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we wouldn't consider making you a firm offer at this price.

That would be worrying - if it weren't for the vastly greater peril of extreme climate change caused by burning all that carbon.

The situation might have continued unchanged if it weren't for a little boy's curiosity back in March.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so are apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

If it weren't for you, this would be in the wind.

Chief: I swear, if it weren't for the new kid, this whole squad would have the common sense of a medusa checking her make-up.

If it weren't for you, I still would not know that I had made a mistake.

Mary: If it weren't for your information, I might be blue and black all over that evening.

If it weren't for his wife's money, he'd never be a director.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations.

If it weren't for Tim Berners-Lee, you would not be able to read this article.

To be frank with you, if it weren't for our good relations, we wouldn't offer you.

These could be written off as temporary factors hitting supply if it weren't for a remorseless increase in demand.

I would be a very patient person if it weren't for traffic jams and long lines in the grocery store.

If it weren't for the leadership of the Communist Party, our happy life today would be simply impossible.

"We would have an overweight for India if it weren't for its valuations, " he said.

If it weren't for the fact that real work gets lost, his slapstick antics might resemble a good Charlie Chaplin movie.

If Shanteau had been in any other country, and if it weren't for Lochte and Phelps, he would have picked up a bronze medal in the event.

Roses require a good deal of care, and if it weren't for the pleasure they give, it wouldn't be worth the work.

And that would probably still be the case if it weren't for the professional instincts of two University of California police officers.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces.

I wouldn't have quoted you such a low price, if it weren't for a large quantity.

If it weren't for Google Earth, they would be holding up bowls of pasta from inside of countertops across Italy right now.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

B: I wouldn't have quoted you such a price, if it weren't for a large quantity.

If it weren't for her bleach-blonde hair, I wouldn't have recognized her.

If it weren't for some toiling farmers digging a well back in 1974, the famed Terracotta Warriors may remain buried still.

Shewould be homeless if it weren't for her lenient landlady.

If it weren't for the many interruptions the meeting would have ended half-an-hour ago.

China would be speaking japanese if it weren't for the flying tigers, remember history!

If it weren't for leap years, the four seasons would not start at the right time.

If it weren't for their support, we would be in a very difficult position.

If it weren't for you, I'd be painting my own posters.

If it weren't for a consolation to Buddha, I would have become a fly flew away.

If it weren't for international rescue packages, Greece, Ireland and Portugal surely would have defaulted on their bonds.

IF it weren't for Iowa, my family may never have existed, and this gay, biracial New Yorker might never have been born.

If it weren't for you, I really wouldn't have had any idea how to deal with this.

If it weren't for that metallic orange "Copperhead" paint job, the Borrego is a pretty forgettable 4, 460 lbs of generic SUV.

If it weren't for the breath. . . that darn need for air. . . just about anyone could learn to swim a beautiful freestyle.

My career would be over if it weren't for you.

I never would've gotten this if it weren't for you.

Lionel said politely. If it weren't for elimination, he would never have said that.

If it weren't for the marines' helmets, their breath would have billowed bone-white in the frigid air.

Of course, if it weren't for the fall of the Soviet union , the AP will still be talking about the Cold War.

Or LeBron James telling a reporter, 'If it weren't for the games and the practices, I'd really enjoy being an NBA player. '

MELANIE: If it weren't for me. . . Oh, Scarlett darling, you've been so good to me.

"I believe that there wouldn't be any gay marriage today if it weren't for AIDS, " Mr. Mendelsohn said.

If it weren't for the duty free shops in the airports, there wouldn't be anything to look forward to when flying.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

If it weren't for you, we would never have known how our son died.

And if it weren't for the recession-related plunge in global trade that began in 2009, the deficit would probably be even bigger.

If it weren't for art, we'd have vanished from the face of the earth long ago.

If it weren't for our good relationship, we'd hardly be willing to make you a firm offer at this price .

get your fact right. . . if it weren't for the muslims and arabs you would still be in the middle ages.

Would the yen have been even stronger in August if it weren't for China?

Students: If it weren't for Edison, we'd all be watching television by candle light.

Indeed, if it weren't for goose bumps, you or I might not be here today!

If it weren't for inhibitions, sun wukong wukong early out America's spider-man.

I would not be where I am today if it weren't for teachers like Darlene McCampbell.

I would not have gone to law school if it weren't for him.

If it weren't for dancing, we'd all be sitting home on the couch watching TV.

I shouldn't mind if it weren't for Eddie, he'll be so cut up.

If it weren't for women, man would still be wearing last week's socks.

If it weren't for people like you, nobody else would have an above average IQ.

Michael: It wouldn't exist if it weren't for you.

If it weren't for my aunt's lending money to me, I couldn't make so many achievements in ballet field.

If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be alive today.

If it weren't for the tremendous pain maybe it wouldn't be as inflaming.

If it weren't for Picasso, we wouldn't be drawing everything as unrecognizable, multinosed cubes.

How, if it weren't for us, people would freeze to death.

If it weren't for the teacher say no littering, otherwise I early throw you out.

If it weren't for your help, he could never go to college.

If it weren't for water, no plant could grow.

I wouldn't be in this business if it weren't for him.

If it weren't for hoops, where would you be?

Thanks to these brave explorers, if it weren't for them, we still wouldn't know where Chile is.

On the one hand, if it weren't for users, we wouldn't have security problems.

There wouldn't be any American if weren't for the Indians that saved the Pilgrims on the first Thanks(for nothing)giving.

You wouldn't be anywhere if it weren't for Ruth.

We wouldn't be here now if it weren't for him.

If it weren't for the climate, I'd like it very much here.

And then the husband said, "Are you kidding? If it weren't for your money, I wouldn't be here" .

If it weren't for Firman, You'd offer him a job right now.

If it weren? t for this, would they actually need to remember how to write characters with a pen?

If it weren't for her mother, she is the University of reading

if it weren't for your maturity

if it weren't for us tomorrow and test, I will go to see a movie tonight;

If it weren't for the penalty clause

if it weren't for my attention

If it weren't for me,