Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even worse , the government 's roads programme is guaranteed to bring even more traffic into circulation , the lessons of the past 50 years , that more roads generate more traffic , apparently not having been learnt . |
| 2 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 3 | I would say simply , having regard to certain observations by Mr. Park in his judgment at p. 8 , shortly before the passage which I have cited , that I am not satisfied that the requirements of paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) would necessarily not have been satisfied . |
| 4 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 5 | LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff . |
| 6 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
| 7 | Charles , who appeared momentarily not to have been listening , laughed absently . |
| 8 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 9 | For example , if you are unfairly made redundant because consideration was not given to offering you another job , your compensation might be discounted to take account of the fact that , had proper consideration been given , you might still not have been offered that job . |
| 10 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 11 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 12 | The study of the discipline does not often include a study of its own academic evolution ; indeed , one suspects than an ahistorical attitude is sometimes projected by lecturers , as if the discipline had always existed in some vague Platonic sense , and could not possibly not have been there . |
| 13 | This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success . |
| 14 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 15 | I would 've probably not 've been here if one had started to speak . |
| 16 | Love , 25 , had two eagles and four birdies in a round which he said would probably not have been played on the USPGA tour . |
| 17 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 18 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 19 | Without that mask he would probably not have been able to complete his con . |
| 20 | Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems . |
| 21 | Derek decided that in the position that Rory was standing , plus the possible cover defence from the Australians , that a try for England would probably not have been scored , so he simply awarded a penalty kick . |
| 22 | The pattern of changes in structure , style , attitudes and behaviour that were eventually achieved would probably not have been possible , or would have taken significantly longer to achieve , in the absence of a critical mass of key individuals who were prepared to devote time and effort to heighten the confidence and enthusiasm of their ‘ converts ’ with their positive message . |
| 23 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 24 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 25 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 26 | I replied I had not , since I had been lucky enough so far not to have been forced to fight for my survival . |
| 27 | The building would simply not have been built . |
| 28 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 29 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 30 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |