Example sentences of "not have been [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most travel journalists will not have been to the Giants ' Grotto , of course , but they will certainly have seen the handy paragraph in the travel company press pack . |
| 2 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 3 | Parish council chairman Brian Biddiscombe said Miss Harrison and her friends should not have been on the bridge . |
| 4 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 5 | His parental maxim , ‘ if you do not serve others , you will not have been worth the upbringing ’ , is reflected in her dedication to a life of service to humanity . |
| 6 | But when a lawyer asserts that A can sue B , what he means is that A can sue B , successfully ; if he meant his words to be taken literally , they would not have been worth the uttering . |
| 7 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 8 | For post-designation companies , about two-thirds would not have been in the zones had designation not taken place . |
| 9 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 10 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 11 | The only other proviso is that the creation of the second spreadsheet program should not have been in the contemplation of the licensed user when decompiling the original program , otherwise the permitted objective of decompilation might be compromised . |
| 12 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 13 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |
| 14 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 15 | Rhodri was still muttering , unwilling to give up his customary pessimism , but he might as well not have been in the room with them , he counted for so little at this moment . |
| 16 | It is true that his young contemporaries , like Edmond Burke and Oliver Goldsmith and indeed later generations of great Irish writers like Maria Edgeworth , Oscar Wilde , Dion Boucicault , W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw , may not have been in the habit of regularly frequenting pubs . |
| 17 | Except you should n't have been on the pavement . |
| 18 | For a start he should n't have been on the table . |
| 19 | Mr McArdle should n't have been on the train . |
| 20 | As a member of the family , you would n't have been on the list . |
| 21 | It would n't have been on the books if I ever seen blatant sectarianism at its worst it 's in that bloody motion . |
| 22 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 23 | If what he told Rose was true , he could n't have been at the belvedere after about a quarter to nine . |
| 24 | But he 's still involved in the design industry — or he would n't have been at the Olympia exhibition , would he ? ’ |
| 25 | But without her virtue , even if she had been beautiful , she would n't have been worth the weight of her little toe in dross . |
| 26 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 27 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |