Example sentences of "not have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 2 | They watched a woman , who could not have been long in this country , testing a mango for ripeness : she felt it all over with her thumb , not looking at it , concentrated , unsmiling , until the stall holder , ever-vigilant , caught sight of her . |
| 3 | It can not have been long , however , before the painting began to undergo a series of striking changes . |
| 4 | Yet he could not have been long in the water . |
| 5 | Once again , because the needs of each group in the departments varied considerably it would not have been cost-effective to consider a general global use of DIP systems . |
| 6 | However , post-war , the rise in divorce rates and remarriage , peaking in the 1970s , means that we shall in future meet more old people whose relationships may not have been lifelong . |
| 7 | It would not have been necessary otherwise to insert an advertisement like this in the New Yorker : |
| 8 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 9 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 10 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 11 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 12 | Information on varieties of stone was given in the duplicated project booklet which the children received at the start of their work , but with some children this would not have been necessary had the school library resource centre contained suitable information in an easily discovered form . |
| 13 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 14 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It is consistent with Lord Alverstone C.J. 's remarks at p. 395 , cited above , that if she had not done so , i.e. , if the transaction had not been properly explained to her , the security would not have been enforceable . |
| 17 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 18 | His defence was , therefore , that on the facts as he reasonably believed them to be , his use of force would not have been unlawful , and he was entitled to be acquitted according to the ordinary principles governing criminal liability . |
| 19 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 20 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 21 | ‘ There would not have been many to mourn him . ’ |
| 22 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 23 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 24 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 26 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 27 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 28 | ‘ He would not have been such a fool as to do it in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 29 | There was a great yearning among lay people to understand in terms of their own vernacular this inner experience of the faith , which , through the institutional influence of the Church , formally governed the structure of their lives , although their education may not have been such as to enable them to cope with the official language of the Church or highly intellectual theological exposition . |
| 30 | Had the police department , under former Chief Darryl Gates , carried out its duties properly last April there would not have been such a spread of violence , he said . |