Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 2 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 3 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 4 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 5 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 8 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 9 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |