Example sentences of "not have been the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 2 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 3 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 4 | It would not have been the act of the person I had chosen to become . |
| 5 | The question she was avoiding was whether Miss Fergusson might not have been the instrument of her own precipitation , in order to achieve or confirm whatever it was she wanted to achieve or confirm . |
| 6 | Many different social sciences — economics , geography and sociology in particular — show how individually intended actions combine to produce social outcomes which may not have been the intentions of the actors . |
| 7 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 8 | The references to Hansard which are set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , put it beyond doubt that that could not have been the intention of Parliament in enacting the section . |
| 9 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 10 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 11 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |