Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [not/n't] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some local authorities may not have introduced those measures as quickly as possible , but it goes further than that . |
| 2 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 3 | Coonts may not have got lost once in three months of eyeball navigation around the Lower 48 , but his writing could do with a position fix . |
| 4 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 5 | The rings of Saturn are indeed spectacular , but we now know that Jupiter , Uranus and Neptune likewise have rings : it is strange that the visiting extraterrestrials should not have mentioned this . |
| 6 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 7 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 8 | Faldo could n't have had any idea of the tropical storm brewing when he and Norman exchanged birdies at the first two holes . |
| 9 | The fall itself did n't kill her — it was hitting her head on the stanchion ; Georgina could n't have planned that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But Jeff could n't have done this . ’ |
| 11 | It seems clear , however , that Chatterton need n't have had prodigious talent for the talent expended in the novel to take effect . |
| 12 | Trespass was ( and still is ) essentially a wrong to possession and the defendant need not have asserted any right to deal with the goods or indulged in any ‘ appropriation ’ of them . |
| 13 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 14 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 15 | Mr Rhys would n't have paid any attention . |
| 16 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 17 | The parties can not have intended such a consequence . |
| 18 | The historian of these events believes that the CNAA may not have shown sufficient flexibility : ‘ if the same attitude as was adopted in the early 1970s by its new Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , had been taken , amalgamation might have occurred sooner ’ . |
| 19 | Northern Brave , the probable favourite , was rather disappointing last time out , and Valiant Boy may not have won such a good race as Stay Awake . |
| 20 | This seems unfortunate since pre-emptive rights are particularly needed in relation to those private companies which are essentially incorporated partnerships and it is difficult to see why , here , the Act could not have treated private companies in the same way as public ones . |
| 21 | The guild could not have achieved this in isolation . |
| 22 | Boardroom upsets could not have done other than harm to the playing side of the club , he went on . |
| 23 | Sprawling at his feet would not have done much for her dignity . |
| 24 | The cheerful noise that emanated from that hall would n't have left any German in doubt that these recruits were all united against a common enemy . |
| 25 | If she had n't subjected her to that late-night journey , with all the upheavals that had accompanied it , perhaps the poor child would not have fallen ill . |
| 26 | If the dependent subsidiary provisions are triggered then any " chargeable increase in the value of the shares " within s79 Finance Act 1988 can give management a Schedule E income tax charge , at a time when management will not have realised any cash from the increased value in the shares to pay the tax . |
| 27 | But it has also been suggested that the animal 's heart could not have pumped enough blood to nourish a head any larger , or one that was in fact more solid than the light , airy structure of the skull of many known species . |
| 28 | There was no mob rule or intimidation and Mr Cranley should not have made those remarks ’ . |
| 29 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 30 | As I put the ‘ phone down , I said to myself : Maurice could n't have done this . |