Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [been] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His talents may not have been great but his importance lies in his using them all to express in painting his romantic vision . |
| 2 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 3 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 4 | The conception of Rome was different : it was a framework treaty covering a wide area , where agreement by the drafting partners ( the member states ) on everything would not have been possible and probably not advisable . |
| 5 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 6 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |
| 7 | The opinion in the Reparations Case would not have been possible if the classic rule relating to treaties and third parties had prevailed ; instead the Court considered the nature of the United Nations , the terms of its constitutive treaty , its composition , its functions , its rights and duties . |
| 8 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 9 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 10 | In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy , there was no reason why Connelly should not have been helpful or why Jones should have falsified an entry in his notebook . ) |
| 11 | The recruitment of volunteer , contract armies could not have been successful unless the war had been widely popular . |
| 12 | Had he heard the evidence now placed before us , he may not have been wholly convinced by it but , in my view , he could not have been sure that the appellants had knowingly breached the court order and , therefore , he could not have been sure that they were in contempt . |
| 13 | Had he heard the evidence now placed before us , he may not have been wholly convinced by it but , in my view , he could not have been sure that the appellants had knowingly breached the court order and , therefore , he could not have been sure that they were in contempt . |
| 14 | To take again our example , Shakespeare could not have been other than Shakespeare ( and , of course , Bacon could not have been other than Bacon ) , but — theoretically — any number of people might have written Macbeth . |
| 15 | To take again our example , Shakespeare could not have been other than Shakespeare ( and , of course , Bacon could not have been other than Bacon ) , but — theoretically — any number of people might have written Macbeth . |
| 16 | During these weeks Prince Charles can not have been other than impressed by her handling of the press and by the public reaction to her . |
| 17 | In fact , in cobbling together what turned out to be a crudely progressive scheme of taxation , government and parliament can not have been unaware that they were evolving a fiscal taxonomy which corresponded to the main divisions of society . |
| 18 | In such a setting , it would not have been surprising if an authentically Benthamite flavour had permeated the debates in Cabinet . |
| 19 | It would not have been surprising if Eva 's many gifts and accomplishments had brought the temptation to pride . |
| 20 | White added : ‘ It 's great to get my game back , but I would not have been disappointed if Alan had won . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It allowed Tatham to develop reserves that probably would not have been economic if they had to build their own stand-alone facility . |
| 22 | If it was merely voidable vis-à-vis the Hammonds , it can not have been void as against the building society . |
| 23 | My actions may or may not have been right and , as I said in court , I wish with hindsight that I had thought more about the late take-up . |
| 24 | Second , he could not have been certain that any successor he designated — even Pompidou — would have been elected in December . |
| 25 | In that different situation , to speak in the other way , using the contrapositive , it would not have been true that if the wipers started to work , the switch was flipped . |
| 26 | When I asked what her name was , I should not have been surprised when she replied clearly : ‘ My name is Lydia . ’ |
| 27 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 28 | She would not have been surprised if The Towers had had dungeons to store them in . |
| 29 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 30 | The Tribunal found , however , that no employee had ever been told that the practice could result in dismissal and the practice had continued , although management trying to impose the change may not have been aware that it continued . |