Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] " 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 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 4 | And how easily I might have missed you by not saying anything , but no , you have too much good sense , you would not have stood by and said nothing , would you ? |
| 5 | It was a question he could not have answered in words . |
| 6 | If it can teach us that love is the most powerful force in the world , we shall not have lived for nothing . |
| 7 | Charles will still sit on the throne and Diana , with whom he will not have lived for years , will be crowned beside him . |
| 8 | We could not have lived without books . |
| 9 | Michael Hickes , Burghley 's Secretary , was in no way diffident about taking presents , for men in his position could not have lived without them and the practice was part of conventional behaviour . |
| 10 | ‘ Just as long as I can spread a little happiness at whatever cost to my dignity , I will not have lived in vain . |
| 11 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 12 | In the event of Christian 's death he would not only become the outright owner of Handley Farm , but Christian intended leaving him sufficient money to ensure he did not have to part with the farm in the foreseeable future . |
| 13 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 14 | He may , like his father , have had a wetnurse ( though his father as one of twins was atypical ) , and if so he may not have remained with Judith when , for instance , she travelled to Rouen to meet her husband in November 824 . |
| 15 | Councillor Buchanan , therefore , is confused in imagining that the board is a committee of the council , on which he bases his argument that I should not have remained in office . |
| 16 | Spain would have been cowed without Wellington 's field force : Wellington could not have operated with a small army without the diversionary effects of Spanish resistance . |
| 17 | It is always the most convenient for my guests in that they do not have to drive in the dark , and they can have a much more leisurely lunch , without worrying about the time , as they would in the evening over dinner . |
| 18 | They , after all , did not have to drive in them . |
| 19 | Perhaps the argumentative Balbindor had been correct in saying I should not have drunk from the waterfall springing from the Other Side . |
| 20 | Although a standardized set of rules has been formulated by WUKO , karate associations in countries outside their jurisdiction do not have to abide by them . |
| 21 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 22 | The additional part , which does not have to do with the connections stated by independent conditionals , is perhaps particularly necessary in connection with our conviction about the explanatoriness of the causal items . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the BCS distinguished between the fear of crime , i.e. people 's fear of being victimised , and concern with crime , people 's more general anxiety about crime which did not have to do with personal Ask . |
| 24 | You come here talking to me about Vicente Ortiz , about a document he may or may not have given to Tristram and which Tristram may or may not have sent to Beatrix . |
| 25 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 26 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 27 | The seller does not have to agree to this and if he does , that will not normally affect the operation of section 20 . |
| 28 | He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community . |
| 29 | In his footnote , John Stuart Mill objects that economising in the use of names is not the sole purpose of classification : ‘ We could not have dispensed with names to mark the points in which different individuals resemble one another : and these are class-names . ’ |
| 30 | Even the previous day 's visitors could not have landed on the same spot as you because the ice , and the herd , move many miles each night . |