Example sentences of "not [verb] been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , as it was earlier in the year this time , there may not have been the necessity since the kits would have been smaller . |
| 2 | Yet often it can not have been the case that a recalcitrant trustee remained in possession of the property entrusted to him . |
| 3 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 4 | The significance of s13 is that matters of description are treated as conditions and not as innominate terms , although this would not have been the case in non-consumer sales had s15A(1) ( b ) of the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 been implemented . |
| 5 | As shown , the inversion breakpoint which disrupted the duplicated region coincides with a boundary of the cluster duplication event , but this need not have been the case . |
| 6 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 7 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 8 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 9 | It would not have been the act of the person I had chosen to become . |
| 10 | The question she was avoiding was whether Miss Fergusson might not have been the instrument of her own precipitation , in order to achieve or confirm whatever it was she wanted to achieve or confirm . |
| 11 | Many different social sciences — economics , geography and sociology in particular — show how individually intended actions combine to produce social outcomes which may not have been the intentions of the actors . |
| 12 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 13 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 14 | ‘ ( 1 ) The register may be rectified pursuant to an order of the court or by the registrar , subject to an appeal to the court , in any of the following cases , but subject to the provisions of this section : — ( a ) Subject to any express provisions of this Act to the contrary , where a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that any person is entitled to any estate right or interest in or to any registered land or charge , and as a consequence of such decision such court is of opinion that a rectification of the register is required , and makes an order to that effect ; ( b ) Subject to any express provision of this Act to the contrary , where the court , on the application in the prescribed manner of any person who is aggrieved by any entry made in , or by the omission of any entry from , the register , or by any default being made , or unnecessary delay taking place , in the making of any entry in the register , makes an order for the rectification of the register ; ( c ) In any case and at any time with the consent of all persons interested ; ( d ) Where the court or the registrar is satisfied that any entry in the register has been obtained by fraud ; ( e ) Where two or more persons are , by mistake , registered as proprietors of the same registered estate or of the same charge ; ( f ) Where a mortgagee has been registered as proprietor of the land instead of as proprietor of a charge and a right of redemption is subsisting ; ( g ) Where a legal estate has been registered in the name of a person who if the land had not been registered would not have been the estate owner ; and ( h ) In any other case where , by reason of any error or omission in the register , or by reason of any entry made under a mistake , it may be deemed just to rectify the register . |
| 15 | The Appeal Court has cleared Stefan Kiszko of the murder of eleven-year-old , Lesley Molseed , sixteen years ago.Forensic evidence has shown he could not have been the killer . |
| 16 | It may not have been the plane journey that got to him , of course . |
| 17 | As the court observed , these arguments ‘ would automatically destroy the Convention in all discovery matters other than those involving physical inspection of the foreign national 's property in its state of citizenship ’ and that could not have been the intention . |
| 18 | The references to Hansard which are set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , put it beyond doubt that that could not have been the intention of Parliament in enacting the section . |
| 19 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 20 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 21 | Ironically , the Great War would not have been the war that it was if it were not for the machine . |
| 22 | It could not have been the gig . |
| 23 | In debate with Trypho , Justin exploited this principle : because the almighty Father is transcendent , the God who appeared to Moses at the burning bush can not have been the Father but his Word and Reason ( Logos ) who is therefore ‘ other than the Father in number though not in will ’ . |
| 24 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 25 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 26 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 27 | So you would n't have had any , so it could n't have been the tablets doing that |
| 28 | would n't have been the reading that we were given , because she said the brief in the erm th the work that we 've had to read |
| 29 | ‘ It need n't have been the girl . ’ |
| 30 | It could n't have been the Lorrimores ' car , I thought . |