Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie could have participated in battles on historic ground , and perhaps not have lost his life , but come back to me . |
| 2 | This picture also says forcibly some other pieces of information which we might perhaps not have guessed : that Portugal and Haiti are very poor countries , and that Trinidad is a very wealthy country , in relative terms . |
| 3 | If we 'd seen it coming sooner then er we would perhaps not have got started on all the many schemes are actually on site . |
| 4 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 5 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 6 | The church has an excellent Romanesque portal , near the west end , made from some marble-like stone hard enough not to have eroded . |
| 7 | Indeed , one author could have submitted more than one strategy ( although it would have been cheating — and Axelrod would presumably not have allowed it — for an author to ‘ pack ’ the competition with strategies , one of which received the benefits of sacrificial cooperation from the others ) . |
| 8 | If the victim in the latter case had known of the facts , he would presumably not have bought the car . |
| 9 | And are there any bits of the course you 'd rather not have done ? |
| 10 | And with Ligulf , the banner he would rather not have seen . |
| 11 | Dagmar was a real pain sometimes , coming out with things you 'd rather not have said . |
| 12 | Ruth felt her throat go dry and for a moment her body yielded to something she would rather not have recognised — a need for another sort of passion in her life . |
| 13 | This they would rather not have settled , and yet there was a kind of relief in it . |
| 14 | Turning to Naas Botha just as he was preparing to kick off the second half , Bishop remarked , ‘ We 're in for a hell of a 40 minutes , Naas ’ — just what sort of hell Botha would rather not have found out … |
| 15 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 16 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 17 | He felt that if he had all this would somehow not have happened . |
| 18 | There were times , too , when Warner was obliged to involve himself with people he 'd sooner not have known . |
| 19 | For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom . |
| 20 | The weather was still heavy and sultry , the promised storm still not having broken . |
| 21 | The end point can vary between the parent just giving in for a peaceful life , the whole event fizzling out with the child still not having done what was asked or the parent having smacked the child and walked away . |
| 22 | Because of continuing financial difficulties and still not having sold the flat , we have had to leave YWAM for the moment . |
| 23 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |
| 24 | Then ( 6 ) If none of cc or cc " or cc " or … existed , even if there occurred any change x consistent with that and with e 's absence , c would still not have happened . |
| 25 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 26 | Had it been essential to inject , many ‘ new ’ users stated that they would probably not have experimented with heroin in the first place . |
| 27 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 28 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |
| 29 | Phoebe , in fairness , could not have known that the maths teacher , shamed in public , should take to hating Maggie with a spiteful glee , though she would probably not have cared if she had . |
| 30 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |