Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In other words , you do not have to look at every instrument continuously . |
| 8 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 9 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 10 | The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality . |
| 11 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 12 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 13 | The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 20 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 24 | We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his . |
| 25 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 26 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 27 | So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat . |
| 28 | This was designed to be a very generous criterion , minimal examples of correct details could be ‘ We did n't have to wait at the lights ’ or ‘ There were several cars ahead of us ’ . |
| 29 | You 're not in prison — you do n't have to stare at the walls . |
| 30 | Yet , with Deacon Blue getting the high score covering Bacharach & David songs , and a lot of new bubblegum little more than MOR , ‘ Sundrive Road ’ could n't have arrived at a better time , when there must be a pay-out for mature bands making no bones about playing pop for its own sake . |