Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [not/n't] have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll do for me , I 've always voted Labour , ’ said the fan , who may or may not have been colour blind . |
| 3 | When we arrive there 's a three inch pile of mail on the floor , the day 's diary overruns one of the computer screens and the breakfast table is set with grapefruit , muesli , cereals , Frank Cooper 's marmalade and a vase of flowers that may or may not have been pinks . |
| 4 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 5 | Is it that would n't have been North Ronaldsay . |
| 6 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 7 | Altogether I probably interviewed about five hundred persons ( members , parents , deprogrammers , anti-cultists , media etc ) , but not all these interviews were conducted in a systematic way — that is to say , they were with people with whom I happened to make contact , and may not have been representative of the Unification population as a whole . |
| 8 | ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down . |