Example sentences of "not have [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others suggested that their schools had an improved and more balanced curriculum , as a result of much more careful planning and prioritising , something which they felt could not have been achieved without devolution . |
| 2 | All this could not have been achieved without Macintosh computers , but again , they were only the means to an end . |
| 3 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 4 | Clinical trials are about to begin in Oxford but this stage would not have been reached without research on animals . |
| 5 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
| 7 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 8 | Had the King simply accepted MacDonald 's resignation , either there would have been no National Government , or , if there had been , it would not have been led by MacDonald . |
| 9 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 10 | Instead of saying " shirts made in 3 different sleeve lengths " which might not have been noticed by readers , the advertisement carried the headline : " Is your husband in another man 's arms ? " — a proposition hard to ignore . |
| 11 | ‘ Make of it what you want , Clerk , she should not have been sent to Godstowe ! ’ |
| 12 | The registration would not have been obtained by fraud . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 14 | ‘ The court shall not in any civil proceedings grant any injunction or make any order against an officer of the Crown if the effect of granting the injunction or making the order would be to give any relief against the Crown which could not have been obtained in proceedings against the Crown . ’ |
| 15 | The dilemma is simple : if the Sistine Chapel 's wall and ceiling were intended to be preserved as form , they should not have been painted with frescoes , it means that someone wanted to remove forever their original architectural character and create something else , which is acceptable ’ . |
| 16 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 17 | In June 1989 the government refused to grant the fundamentalist Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) legal recognition as a political party , on the grounds that by law founders and leaders of parties must not have been convicted of offences warranting more than three months ' imprisonment or six months ' suspended sentence ; 15 Nahdah leaders , although at liberty , still had current convictions dating from September 1987 ( see p. 36633 ) . |
| 18 | The plate tectonic paradigm could not have been constructed from evidence derived solely from Scottish research . |
| 19 | In this respect the cautionary words of Staughton LJ quoted above were never more apposite ; practices which on the old authorities would not have been regarded as part of a solicitor 's normal work may well , not least in the wake of the Financial Services Act 1986 , become commonplace . |
| 20 | It could almost certainly not have been done by air power alone . |
| 21 | True , it would not have been seen by people in Bristol or Birmingham but it might just have struck a chord with somebody in the area where the crime was committed . |
| 22 | This prediction , too , was supported but the pattern of results shown by right handers ( non-inverters ) was closer to that of left inverters than to that shown by left non-inverters , which would not have been expected on Levy and Reid 's hypothesis . |
| 23 | Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial . |
| 24 | It is true that , without guillotines then , the Bills could not have been brought into operation . |
| 25 | At this stage the actual response categories may not have been considered in detail , but if the questions themselves justify inclusion some thought should have been given to the response categories envisaged for analysis since it is the answers which will be analysed . |
| 26 | While this language might not have been chosen under Kennedy , the advisers of the new president , Lyndon Johnson , went on to cite specific grievances against Britain which would have arisen under any president . |
| 27 | It has been argued that Jesus could not have been executed on Passover day because : |
| 28 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |
| 29 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 30 | These steps could not have been imitated from adults since the last is the only version they are likely to have heard . |