Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 2 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 3 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 4 | It may not have been sensible to climb alone up here at this time in these conditions , but it was little enough , and that straightforward . |
| 5 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 6 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 7 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 8 | It may not have been the plane journey that got to him , of course . |
| 9 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 10 | This is a significant insight , albeit that it may not have been shared by the main body of regional officers . |
| 11 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 12 | Gagnon and Simon suggest that : ‘ To earlier societies it may not have been a need to constrain severely the powerful sexual impulse in order to maintain social stability or limit inherently anti-social force , but rather a matter of having to invent an importance for sexuality' . |
| 13 | But it may not have been so intended . |
| 14 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 15 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 16 | What form of building this curia took is unknown , though it may not have been unlike a principia . |
| 17 | There is also a record of a Spanish ship carrying cloth out of Bristol in the 1460s , and it may not have been untypical , although undoubtedly English vessels were engaged in the Iberian trade . |
| 18 | It may not have been called formal consultation process . |
| 19 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 20 | no , the brochure would not necessary have been out of date , it depended when the first occupation was , if er the first occupation was in July or August it may not have been necessary to update the brochure on Sept on the first of September |
| 21 | The categories have been increased but the funding has not , so that er although this is in as a growth item and although it is being presented as a standstill item , in fact it may not have been a , a , a , a reduction in the service . |
| 22 | It may not have been the ideal preparation but after 20 years as a professional , I have got my priorities right . ’ |
| 23 | The dress was tight in the right places , and shiny where it should n't have been . |
| 24 | It should n't have been that easy . |
| 25 | Though what I did notice was a motor bicycle parked where it should n't have been — outside Wheeler 's . |
| 26 | that maybe it should n't have been a we a weeks notice then . |
| 27 | it could n't , it should n't have been left out there . |
| 28 | Not only is AT&T probably paying too much , it should not have been trying to buy the firm in the first place . |
| 29 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 30 | The IMF 's attempts to help Russia , says Mr Sachs , have been ‘ a disappointing performance of a task that it should not have been given . ’ |