Example sentences of "[Wh det] can not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I told my faithful readers last week , this particular old gent was transported by an extremely uncomfortable magic carpet ( B.A. steerage , Apex ticket , with all the delights of plastic food and stewardesses trained by the Obergrüppenführer at Heathrow ) to Chiantishire , that old-established suburb of Wimbledon , which ca n't have changed much since Britannia ruled the waves and wogs stopped at Calais . |
| 2 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 3 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 4 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 5 | The reaction within the industry has been almost totally favourable — an irony which can not have escaped Altman , who gave wry smile as he received a standing ovation at Cannes this year and the prize for Best Director . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons . |