Example sentences of "[modal v] not have [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 2 | In order to enter the Temple , one must be pure ; in order to be pure , the boundaries of one 's own body must not have been transgressed with anything impure . |
| 3 | The established course of dealing must not have been deviated from on the occasion in question . |
| 4 | if the SSR is to close an SPR , the SPR must have been accepted previously by a LIFESPAN user and must not have been closed via another SSR . |
| 5 | This caution is reinforced by a second reason , which in practical terms may be of paramount importance , the fear of being the object of a legal action at the suit of parents , guardians , or relatives , who might allege that the patient was neglected , and would urge that the patient 's refusal should not have been relied upon . |
| 6 | ‘ Make of it what you want , Clerk , she should not have been sent to Godstowe ! ’ |
| 7 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 8 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 9 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 10 | Rights such as these should not have been denied to the public . |
| 11 | ‘ He should not have been put in charge of the fund . |
| 12 | If the position of the baby is important maybe the two babies in the intervention group who were not held below the introitus should not have been included in the final analysis . |
| 13 | In Ashbridge Investments Ltd. v. Minister of Housing and Local Governments the Minister had power to modify a clearance order if he was of the opinion that land should not have been included in it . |
| 14 | The creature which should not have been came for her , clawhands jerking . |
| 15 | Greenpeace had argued that the commissioning tests , which involve the use of radioactive materials , should not have been allowed before a final decision on the plant 's go-ahead . |
| 16 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 17 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 18 | The ewes and lambs should then be grazed on pasture which , in temperate areas at least , should not have been used by sheep during the previous year . |
| 19 | It is no conceded that that figure included matters which should not have been taken into consideration , such as the agency quotes mark-up unquotes and the effect of V A T. Figures making allowance for appropriate deductions but also including what I 've said by Mr to be appropriate increases totalling one hundred and sixty thous one hundred and sixty six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds , are claimed on behalf of the plaintiff . |
| 20 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 21 | The jury comes to a conclusion that er the police er took whatever degree of reasonableness was breached , that the raid should n't have been made on the day it was . |
| 22 | I E the , the middle peasant should n't have been encroached upon . |
| 23 | She protested that they should n't have been put on there without her authority , and the farm chaps laughed and said , ‘ You wo n't be wanting that again . ’ |
| 24 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 25 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 26 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 27 | Should n't have been left on his own , but that 's Rose Hilaire for you . |
| 28 | Dotty was n't at all sure the poor woman should n't have been left in the telephone box until the ambulance arrived , rather than carried by George across the square in a fireman 's lift under an old blanket , but Rose had convinced her that a scandal must be avoided at all costs . |
| 29 | There are only two varieties of western male who routinely and deliberately display what they may or may not have been born with ( rumours of radiator hoses and sockfuls of sand abound ) and they are the matador and the heavy rock 'n' roller . |
| 30 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |