Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 2 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 3 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 4 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 5 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |
| 6 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 7 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 8 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 9 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 10 | In fact , by the year 2000 the number of school leavers will not have returned to the 1970 level and is predicted to continue to fall to an all-time low in 1993/4(2) . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Without him I would not have got to the Friends ’ School as a boarder . |
| 12 | He was just pointing out little do 's and don't 's that might not have occurred to the eager amateur . |
| 13 | The relevant considerations are ( 1 ) that to talk of an interpretation may be to talk of something one consciously does , an action ( in the Brown Book the corresponding question was whether ‘ B derived that the object shown to him was a pencil ’ [ my italics ] ) ; and ( 2 ) that the possibility of an alternative interpretation ( using the word now not to refer to an action ) may not have occurred to the person concerned . |
| 14 | And the successful formalization of data can open up questions for research , and types of evidence , which would not have occurred to the research community without the effort to present the data in computer-friendly form . |
| 15 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 16 | Like SunSoft ( UX No 414 ) , Cunningham says companies that might not have agreed to the effort in 1991 or 1992 are certain to be driven into the arms of the ABI 1993 by the impending Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 17 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 18 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 19 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 20 | ‘ Or he would n't have agreed to a truce over Christmas . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Could n't have happened to a nicer chap . ’ |
| 22 | I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’ |
| 23 | We 've asked the people for half past three , they 'll all be here by four , so we need n't sit down to the tea until half past five , and we would n't have got to the cake until your father has the business closed , and is back here . ’ |
| 24 | Unless she crawled to the edge of the embankment — I suppose it 's possible , but she ca n't have walked to the spot in the first place . ’ |