Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an enlightened decision , but it can not have been easy given the high level of unemployment in the rural west , and the need to find more material resources . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would be almost inconceivable with his passion , that Green would not have been powerfully influenced by Wordsworth and , as will be shown later , in turn , reciprocated this effect . |
| 4 | Up to ten non-overlapping paper ranges can be defined , however once defined , paper ranges can not be reduced or removed , A paper range may be extended , however the identifiers introduced into the extended range must not have been previously allocated as magnetic SPRs . |
| 5 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 6 | new evidence has become available which could not have been reasonably known of or foreseen ; or |
| 7 | The Geiger counter may not have been properly calibrated . |
| 8 | In fact , the alternative course open to the Church Commissioners of demolition of the building and sale of the site might not have been easily pursued , had they chosen to adopt that route . |
| 9 | The baton of innovation , in this view , may not have been altogether dropped , but sometimes has to be carried by another team before the British outfit can continue its own rather erratic course down the tracks of literary history . |
| 10 | Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons . |
| 11 | The most recent , involving the claim that his mental state might not have been adequately conveyed to the jury during his original trial , had been upheld by Judge John Noonan of the Court of Appeals of the ninth US Circuit based in San Francisco , on March 30 , 1990 . |
| 12 | As S. G. F. Brandon has pointed out , the great popularity of the cult of Osiris meant , in effect , the adoption by the Egyptians of a definite concept of time , although this may not have been consciously recognized . |
| 13 | As an example , when Ellis died in 1962 , a newly-recruited TDC guard received $256 per month with fringe benefits such as uniforms , and can not have been highly regarded in a society which measures status by money . |
| 14 | Whatever the reasons , it is certain that the development of financial conglomerates could not have been fully completed without the radical changes brought about by what in Britain is known as the ‘ Big Bang ’ — the deregulation of the Stock Exchange in October 1986 . |
| 15 | Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice . |
| 16 | However some answering ‘ yes ’ to this also went on to oppose any cap in the case of private clients — which suggests that the capping implications of this question may not have been fully appreciated . |
| 17 | I can tell from what he said that he is a strong supporter of the parents charter , without which those results might not have been fully known . |
| 18 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 19 | As there is no apparent sulphate reduction in these zones and the SRB can not have been recently introduced to these deeply isolated environments , we speculate that the SRB must survive by reducing Fe(III)-reducing environments is needed . |
| 20 | Even though he knows he can no longer be rendered homeless his feelings of dependence will not have been entirely removed . |
| 21 | The real Jesus could not have been more removed from Renan 's ‘ amiable carpenter ’ who spoke beautifully about the lilies of the field in order to convey a new and simple principle of love , ; the ‘ historical Jesus ’ of so many searches and ‘ discoveries , was not historical at all . |
| 22 | The October wedding could not have been further removed from the one planned for today . |
| 23 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 24 | It is not improbable that men worth £1 or less did not begin to attract attention until the later stages of the subsidy bill , as a result of the Commons ' determination to shift the burden of taxation downwards , for if the intention was to rope in labourers and servants as a makeweight , it could not have been seriously supposed that any substantial amount could be wrung from them . |
| 25 | Thus women who are 45 years old or more will not have been commonly exposed to OC use while young for long periods . |
| 26 | They also lack statistical power since most breast cancer cases included will be older women approaching 50 , who will not have been commonly exposed . |
| 27 | But one of this chapter 's implications is that their preoccupations may not have been so misplaced after all . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State is not required to entertain an appeal if it appears to him that permission for the proposed development could not have been granted by the local planning authority , or could not have been so granted otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them , having regard to the statutory requirements to the provisions of the development order , and to any directions given under the order . |
| 29 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 30 | His manners , however , must have been unmarked , wavering , dubious , or she could not have been so misled . |