Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both acts are morally wrong — Edward should not have abused his divine right and curried favour by dishing out peerages . |
| 2 | Failure to clear up a problem which is or may be legal will usually be fatal , unless the facts admit of only one answer , because it will mean that the jury may not have understood their legal duty . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 4 | Benjamin James Titford may or may not have made his fair share of mistakes as a young teacher ; but when the chance came of running his own show in a conducive environment , he took it with alacrity . |
| 5 | Esther Clark was about eighteen years older than her new husband , but may not have revealed her actual age to him . |
| 6 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 7 | Those who could not escape met their horrific , futile deaths there , ’ they said . |
| 8 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 9 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 10 | But Schopenhauer could not have had his potent influence on the young scholar without an additional aesthetic quality which , in Nietzschean eyes , made him virtually a one-man cultural ideal . |
| 11 | ‘ I could not have started my professional career without their help , ’ said Payne . |
| 12 | Alida would not have called her dear Faith then . |
| 13 | Suzanne would not have wanted her jailed . ’ |
| 14 | One would not have believed his grubby Lada capable of such manoeuvres as he coaxed from its grinding engine but , after a moment of horror , I sat back and enjoyed the ride . |
| 15 | You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability . |
| 16 | But the way he delivered it would not have disgraced your average member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 17 | The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career . |
| 18 | However these two shows transpire , we can be sure that Butcher and Anderson will not have compromised their separate visions . |
| 19 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |