Example sentences of "[modal v] not have [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well — if he hated the massacre , he should not have been at the battle . ’ |
| 2 | They might not have been at their best on Saturday , but until the outstanding Ruel Fox was injured they played some impressive football . |
| 3 | When the French fleet , united with the Spanish , did threaten Cornwall it could not have been at a more perilous time . |
| 4 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 5 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 6 | Plainly national security can not have been at stake since that had already been damaged . |