Example sentences of "not have be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 2 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 3 | But in spite of the multiplication of new basic research tools in the humanities , it is surprisingly difficult to point , in specific areas , to solid , uncontroverted gains to scholarship which could not have been achieved without the new technology . |
| 4 | ‘ Zero incidents would have been better , ’ said Malcolm Hartley , the site safety adviser , ‘ and this is our target for 1993 , but only one incident throughout the year is extremely good news and could not have been achieved without the strong commitment for safe working shared by the site 's work-force ’ . |
| 5 | This success could not have been achieved without the dedication of all the Chairmen , voluntary Officers , Committee members and teachers who have worked so hard for the Society during those years . |
| 6 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 7 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 8 | As Bowers has pointed out , however , it must be questioned whether the same results could not have been achieved by a strictly enforced parking policy , given the lack of parking space . |
| 9 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 10 | To qualify in this last category a dependant need not have been related to the deceased , and thus a mistress would be included . |
| 11 | The range and depth of learning and the sense of satisfaction and achievement gained by the students were of a level which could not have been reached in the classroom . |
| 12 | Even had the bid been financed mainly with borrowed cash , would it not have been referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ? |
| 13 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 14 | An individual term may be ineffective in law ; or the terms as a whole may not have been incorporated into the contract in question . |
| 15 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 16 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 17 | Dad may not have been endowed with a surplus of brain-matter , but he was no fool . |
| 18 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 19 | The client is then able to rely on the fact that even if s65(6)– ( 9 ) applied the benefit will not have been received in the United Kingdom because the benefit will be used to repay the interest on the loan ( and not the capital ) . |
| 20 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 21 | The anxiety is often more to do with getting rid of people who have exhausted their gifts , lost their way or , not unheard-of , should not have been appointed in the first place . |
| 22 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |
| 23 | The metabolism controversy may not have been aided by the somewhat liberal use of generic terms by Bakker and even by his critics , in popular books and articles . |
| 24 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 25 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 26 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 27 | The Panama Canal could not have been built without the help of Guppies . |
| 28 | And he admits to being impressed by new housing partnerships between the public and private sectors on projects which could not have been built without the co-operation of both parties . |
| 29 | The absence of c , if accompanied by an alternative causal circumstance for e , would not have been followed by the absence of e . |
| 30 | It would not have been followed by the effect if some other event or condition had been missing . ) |