Example sentences of "and could [not/n't] have [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This information has proved invaluable and could not have been gathered in any other way . |
| 2 | The parity of esteem , demanded in 1944 between the different schools , was never achieved , and could not have been achieved , given the fundamentally Platonic attitude of politicians , teachers , and the general public , to say nothing of the universities . |
| 3 | ‘ Zero incidents would have been better , ’ said Malcolm Hartley , the site safety adviser , ‘ and this is our target for 1993 , but only one incident throughout the year is extremely good news and could not have been achieved without the strong commitment for safe working shared by the site 's work-force ’ . |
| 4 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 5 | Unfortunately this means that they occupy fairly similar orbits and could not have been formed in widely separated parts of the PFM . |
| 6 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 7 | It is a project of ambitious scale and could not have been realised without the generous sponsorship of the Menil Foundation , owner of an important group of works by Magritte . |
| 8 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 9 | Mr Baillie said the part of the building which had been converted to offices was no longer suitable for care of the elderly and could not have been adapted economically . |
| 10 | He did not know and could not have been expected to know the qualities of petrol . |