Example sentences of "would [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the help of ACET and other direct service organisations and charities , I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 2 | Without the help of ACET and other similar organisations I would not have been able to continue and maintain my independence . |
| 3 | But without the help of ACET and other voluntary organisations I would not have been able to maintain my independence . ’ |
| 4 | At least one member of the jury said he would not have given a sentence of death ( which must be unanimous ) had he known that Prejean had suffered prolonged mental and physical abuse from his guardians . |
| 5 | Had to satisfy that desire , he wrote , yet find a way of doing so that would not have that physical effect on me . |
| 6 | And Goldberg , on his pad : If the fool had ever bothered to read what I have written on the subject in the essay on aura and the hour he would not have flailed about as he does here . |
| 7 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 8 | I would not have thought you … |
| 9 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 10 | If I had elected to stay there , I probably would not have become homeless five years later . |
| 11 | A little luck would not have come amiss , either . |
| 12 | Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds . |
| 13 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 14 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 15 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 16 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ For them to claim ’ would not have jarred the ear in the same way , she thought , but did not say . |
| 18 | Now if the reflexive processes were not autonomous in just this way , if they were determined ‘ top down ’ by our thoughts then we would not have blinked . |
| 19 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 20 | This provided Railfreight with valuable contracts for long-distance bulk coil traffic , traffic which would not have materialised if the steel industry had survived the 1980s unscathed . |
| 21 | But if Ashton had not made these very distinctive changes in his ports de bras , the seasonal differences would not have been so notable . |
| 22 | S&N argue they have kept Theakstons open and , presumably , would not have been so keen to do so if they could n't use the name and local appeal of the brand to advertise their Tyne Brewery beers . |
| 23 | If there had been a bolt on my belay at Swanage it would not have been an environmental disaster . |
| 24 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 25 | In the last chapter , in prison , he says that without the crime he would not have found within himself such questions , desires , feelings , needs , strivings , and development . ’ |
| 26 | Razumikhin would not have laughed like the jolly Nastasya . |
| 27 | The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . |
| 28 | And even if I had , I would not have begun copying them . |
| 29 | BBC claims that it would not have decided to go ahead with EON on a country-wide basis unless it had received assurances that other firms will have suitable second generation RDS receivers on the market soon . |
| 30 | who would not have shown weight on a scale |