Example sentences of "not have [be] [vb pp] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important as was the consciousness of self-government , the fueros would not have been defended with such obstinacy had they not conferred substantial economic advantages , designed originally to favour poor frontier provinces . |
| 2 | Certainly , his intellectual position would not have been jeopardised by such an extension of his arguments . |
| 3 | The pioneering work of these men provided a bedrock of knowledge and experience without which the later railway system could not have been constructed with such astonishing speed . |
| 4 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 5 | ‘ We are both aware , I dare say , that were my royal lord with me now , I would not have been brought to such a pass . |
| 6 | John Aubrey records how Thomas Hobbes , the philosopher , was ‘ put into a Woollen shroud ’ at his death in 1679 , arguing that had Hobbes received the £100 per annum pension granted by Charles II in 1660 — ‘ At the Restoration , Charles II awarded him a pension of £100 a year — which , however , His Majesty forgot to pay ’ — then he might not have been buried in such a common shift . |