Example sentences of "can not have [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 2 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 3 | The Roman copies can not have been made from this , since it was not then available ; so it gives the only incontrovertible evidence for an exact replica being made in classical times . |
| 4 | Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds . |
| 5 | Lyons ' cause can not have been helped by the red card received by one of their skilful full-backs , Jasminder Matharu , in the league last Saturday . |
| 6 | Lyons ' cause can not have been helped by the red card received by one of their skilful full-backs , Jasminder Matharu , in the league last Saturday . |
| 7 | The fixation shift results make it clear that orienting behaviour can be evoked by stimuli that can not have been processed by any contralateral cortical structures . |
| 8 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |