Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [vb pp] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entrants must be aged 16 to 25 , and must not have done any professional modelling or have an existing portfolio . |
| 2 | ‘ I should not have made such quick assumptions . ’ |
| 3 | Though Dawson may not have masterminded this sophisticated and influential forgery , his complicity in the affair was strongly suspected . |
| 4 | Ernst & Young stress , as did Price Waterhouse , that ‘ it should be recognised that our review did not constitute an audit and may not have revealed all material facts ’ . |
| 5 | You might not have read those actual pages before , but you can recognise the style , where it comes from . |
| 6 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 7 | A second possibility is that the male 's spectacular plumage indicates that he is free of parasites , otherwise he could not have grown such superb feathers . |
| 8 | But , then , he could not have foreseen such terrible days as these , when ‘ the contemplation of futurity ’ inspired only fear and dread . |
| 9 | I could not have had more loyal service from the staff at the Bar Council nor a more supportive Vice-Chairman and Bar Council . |
| 10 | She could not have had more instant attention than she got then . |
| 11 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 12 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 13 | It is worth bearing in mind that , in terms of the wider system , the data on the forms was subject to a number of validation checks , and failure of the procedure at section level would not have had any disastrous consequences . |
| 14 | Her mother would not have found this amusing . |
| 15 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 16 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |