Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implicit complaint is that many British insurers would not have been saddled with these claims if US law and regulation had not been retrospectively changed . |
| 2 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 3 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ordered the review , despite telling MPs yesterday : ‘ If officials had found out any information about Mr Clinton it would not have been given out . ’ |
| 4 | The IMF 's attempts to help Russia , says Mr Sachs , have been ‘ a disappointing performance of a task that it should not have been given . ’ |
| 5 | In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out . |
| 6 | Mr Burke said it was Mrs Busuttil 's case that she should not have been given such high doses of the drug to induce labour . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | It is a pity that the same could not have been said of the United Company of Undertakers and the Worshipful Company of Upholders . |
| 9 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 10 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 11 | But the Fed 's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations . |
| 12 | the DC must not have been activated and |
| 13 | The DC must already exist and must not have been activated . |
| 14 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 15 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The parity of esteem , demanded in 1944 between the different schools , was never achieved , and could not have been achieved , given the fundamentally Platonic attitude of politicians , teachers , and the general public , to say nothing of the universities . |
| 18 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is not because the necessary legal result could not have been achieved using a legacy , but presumably because the composite wording creates a presumption that a trust was intended . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All this could not have been achieved without Macintosh computers , but again , they were only the means to an end . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | First , it contributes through its very vagueness a richness of interpretation that would not have been achieved otherwise . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A Notice under s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 need not have been served and the lessor may rely simply on his right of re-entry , assuming such be contained in the lease or tenancy agreement . |
| 29 | But for the failure , either the plaintiff would not have been injured or his injuries would not have been so severe . |
| 30 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |