The phrase "were it not" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a subjunctive phrase that means "if it were not for." Example: Were it not for your help, I would have failed the exam.
The United States and Britain emphasized that the airstrikes were in not directed against the people of Afghanistan, Islam or the Muslim world.
The bailout club needs to be a group that banks wish they were in, not one they fear to be in.
Lloyd George would have happily introduced outright prohibition, were in not for his advisers pointing out that the banning of vodka in Russia had been a flashpoint for the Bolshevik revolution.
It is, in essence, the next shift away from the business that newspaper people thought they were in – not gathering news for a baited-breath audience, but desperately defining and servicing new content niches, in order to sell to an uncertain and dubious audience.
I would have been in that boat were in not for this column preventing me from being conflicted in such a way.
The tribal infighting and militia warfare that has enveloped Libya over the past five years has exploded because of NATO's regime change mission against Qaddafi an operation that wouldn't have been possible were in not for the United States.
