Example sentences of "not have be used " in BNC.

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1 There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it .
2 There was no apparent reason why the road should not have been used as it was free at the time .
3 It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue .
4 It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose …
5 The ewes and lambs should then be grazed on pasture which , in temperate areas at least , should not have been used by sheep during the previous year .
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