Example sentences of "not [vb infin] been expected " in BNC.
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| 1 | This prediction , too , was supported but the pattern of results shown by right handers ( non-inverters ) was closer to that of left inverters than to that shown by left non-inverters , which would not have been expected on Levy and Reid 's hypothesis . |
| 2 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 3 | The messages were often banal , but sometimes gave surprising information about a participant which the medium would not have been expected to know . |
| 4 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |
| 5 | The court said that in the circumstances of that case the auditor could not have been expected to act as a specialist valuer , and was therefore not liable for failing to reach that higher standard . |
| 6 | Rebaya and her daughter purchased the materials necessary to men to make incense sticks and again have achieved a degree of financial independence which six months before could not have been expected . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't have been expected to know . |
| 9 | She told herself later that she could n't have been expected to remember what a knife-edge he lived on , how hard it was for him to trust anyone . |
| 10 | It was James I wanted at this moment , more than Toby , who could n't have been expected to understand this . |
| 11 | But do n't blame yourself — you could n't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job . |