Example sentences of "not have been in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For post-designation companies , about two-thirds would not have been in the zones had designation not taken place . |
| 3 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 4 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By rights he should n't have been in the race at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |