Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 2 | They clinked their glasses ; then Martin , walking towards the long window , said , ‘ It 's a good job I did n't become engaged ; you should n't get married at a time like this . ’ |
| 3 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 4 | He should n't have grabbed her , should n't have shouted at her . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps I should n't have come at all . |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 7 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 8 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 9 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 10 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 11 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 12 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 13 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 14 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 15 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 16 | When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa . |
| 17 | Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton . |
| 18 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 20 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 21 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 22 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 23 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 24 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 25 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 26 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 27 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 28 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |