Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [not/n't] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money may not have changed hands . |
| 2 | Calves in this category may not have developed a strong immunity and after treatment should not be returned to the field which was the source of infection ; if this is impossible , parenteral ivermectin is the drug of choice since its residual effect prevents reinfection for a further three weeks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The door referred to in Katherine Mansfield 's sentence may not have existed , but plenty of other doors , of which we have real experience , do . |
| 5 | In some areas , of course , the changes may have been more apparent than real and the necessity of being eligible for election may not have changed the actual personnel who continued to dominate rural politics . |
| 6 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | THOSE of our readers who drop into a branch of W. H. Smith 's to pick up their copy of New Scientist may not have realised what hotbeds of intellectual ferment these unassuming stores can be . |
| 8 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 9 | In Tait , where Lord Clyde considered that the clerk should not have rejected the late application , his Lordship ordered the board to hold a meeting to consider the application under s.31(2) . |
| 10 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 11 | I understand that Today 's Horse may not have made itself very popular . |
| 12 | The women in this study may not have identified with the ‘ unemployed ’ status , but employment remained a central organising principle of their lives . |
| 13 | Coppola may not have provided the definitive film of the Vietnam War , but he succeeded in providing ‘ a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror , the madness , the sensuousness and the moral dilemma of Vietnam ’ . |
| 14 | But Pam Tatlow says the club should n't have invited the other politicians if they wanted to steer clear of controversy . |
| 15 | A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different . |
| 16 | It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell . |
| 17 | Similarly , purposeful action involves at least implicit recognition of some future achievement , but a general sense of the future could not have resulted until man applied his mind systematically to the problem of future events . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ The tests show the blood could not have originated from Darren Nichol . ’ |
| 19 | That car could not have tipped over of itself . |
| 20 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 21 | The priest could n't have looked more relieved if he had completed a mission to those that dwell in the waters that are below the earth . |
| 22 | Maybe if you guys in Norway joined the EC a bit quicker Silver could nt have used that as an excuse : - ) |
| 23 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 24 | But the gang knew about financial developments which had taken place since the kidnapping , things Ruggiero could n't have known about . |
| 25 | I 'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence . |
| 26 | Sorrel could n't have made more than a grand so far that morning . |
| 27 | Consciousness could not have arisen by degrees . |
| 28 | Trespass was ( and still is ) essentially a wrong to possession and the defendant need not have asserted any right to deal with the goods or indulged in any ‘ appropriation ’ of them . |
| 29 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 30 | Otherwise your trainer would n't have entered them . |