Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] n't have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The football might n't have been very good but it was a great time , magic . |
| 2 | The surprise and confusion could n't have been faked . |
| 3 | The other affected blindness and certainly had something wrong with his eyes , though half the population of Egypt suffered from ophthalmia and the eyes could n't have been too bad since he relied on them every day . |
| 4 | For example , ensure that the undertaking provides for payment to the bank out of monies coming to your hands ; then if , for some reason beyond your control , you do n't receive the purchase monies this condition wo n't have been fulfilled , and you will be exempt from the obligation to pay . |
| 5 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir Ewen wo n't have been pleased , ’ Charlie said . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 8 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 9 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 10 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 11 | Reynolds would n't have been able to stand upright in one of them , and the open-mesh floor would have made it even more uncomfortable . |
| 12 | The bruiser would n't have been promised a reward of twenty quid otherwise . |
| 13 | ( These ‘ butler 's pantry ’ sinks are worth a few bob these days , either to the dockland yuppies doing up houses Jack the Ripper would n't have been seen dead in , or to amateur photographers who use them in their darkrooms . |
| 14 | Well , I mean a , and the Queen was nothing , er well , the Queen would n't have been a Queen now would she ? |
| 15 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 16 | Only just into three figures , which was nothing these days , and in any case the money could n't have been important . |
| 17 | The blow could n't have been self-inflicted , so presumably it 's murder , or manslaughter , or some peculiar accident . |
| 18 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 19 | The Magic Line follows a bolted , pebble-studded slab up the front of the dome and the route finding could n't have been simpler . |
| 20 | The moment could n't have been better , said Dyson , taking another armful of stuff from the messenger . |
| 21 | ‘ The whole process could n't have been more undignified . |
| 22 | He was sure that the match could n't have been left there by anyone in the PCC . |
| 23 | The match could n't have been more of a thriller if it had been written in Hollywood . |
| 24 | The reason I shall vote against the motion and for the amendment could n't have been put more succinctly than it was by Mr , I think Mr made the most pertinent remark that has been made in the debate today , when in opposition to what Mr said about individual freedom he said this is a matter of personal conscience . |
| 25 | The former topless model turned singer could n't have been closer to her father Pat Fox , and mother Carole , at the height of her glamour career . |
| 26 | Both Clare and Elaine could n't have been happier . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , Yeats could n't have been expected to know that . ’ |
| 28 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 29 | ‘ If you 'd done your duty by me , as a daughter should , the post would n't have been there to take . ’ |
| 30 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |