Example sentences of "not have been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a ‘ portrait ’ group , though the lost heads will not have been likenesses : a family ( or , if all are women , a group of temple-servants ) . |
| 2 | Accordingly it would catch persons who may not have been customers of the plaintiff at the time when the defendant left his employment but who had become customers subsequently . |
| 3 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 4 | When we arrive there 's a three inch pile of mail on the floor , the day 's diary overruns one of the computer screens and the breakfast table is set with grapefruit , muesli , cereals , Frank Cooper 's marmalade and a vase of flowers that may or may not have been pinks . |
| 5 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |
| 6 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 7 | But these relationships may not have been partnerships in any of the senses that the word is used today . |
| 8 | Among the crowd there were heroes of the late war and some who might not have been heroes then but were prepared to be so now . |