Example sentences of "[vb -s] not to have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may miss out significant features of style which he happens not to have been looking for . |
| 2 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 3 | Despite her questionable health , Leapor seems not to have been troubled by the physical demands of her work . |
| 4 | Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued . |
| 5 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 6 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 7 | Kühdorf of 7/JG 26 claiming one which again seems not to have been confirmed . |
| 8 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 9 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 10 | As yet this seems not to have been a frequent occurrence and the request was successfully rebuffed by some abbots of religious houses which did not own the king as patron , but a door had been opened which subsequent monarchs were to push far wider . |
| 11 | Unlike the ‘ fairy forts ’ in Ireland , it bears no evidence of fortification , and seems not to have been inhabited . |
| 12 | His own farming seems not to have been profitable , however , perhaps because of his other activities ; he and his heirs sold off over 500 acres in the later seventeenth century . |
| 13 | At the very end of his life there was also a suggestion that he was in receipt of bribes for the release of prisoners at Newgate , though this allegation seems not to have been proved . |
| 14 | One of his mills was probably the largest in the country by the 1880s , though it seems not to have been a paper-mill when he acquired it . |
| 15 | While Mustakimzade is probably right that Fahreddin Acemi taught at Murad II 's Darulhadis , as will be shown , his construction of events-that Fahreddin Acemi taught there and then became Mufti on the death of Molla Fenari-is most unlikely since the Darulhadis of Murad II seems not to have been completed until 23 Sha'ban 838/24 March 1435 . |
| 16 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 17 | It is perhaps possible that were Murad II returning from a great victory , Molla Yegan might have come from Bursa to greet him , but such seems not to have been the case . |
| 18 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 19 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 20 | Although his authority was undoubtedly derived from the Roman office which he held , the area over which he exercised control seems not to have been determined by any Roman administrative division , but rather by the presence of the Visigoths to the west and by other smaller groups , including Aegidius and his followers , to the north . |
| 21 | But there appears not to have been , for instance , any of that sterile rivalry between man and wife which is now the bane of middle-class society with any claims to cultural or intellectual interests ; plainly Mrs Lowndes and the young matrons who were her friends did not seethe resentfully at having their intellectual and imaginative capacities shackled to kitchen and nursery , whereas their husbands could exercise theirs in the great world . |
| 22 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 23 | Kühdorf , but this appears not to have been confirmed ; 261 Squadron recorded however that several other Hurricanes were damaged during the engagement . |
| 24 | The relevance in this context of the Summary of the document to be served under the Convention system appears not to have been addressed . |
| 25 | The Shipping Federation appears not to have been unduly alarmed by the possibility of international action . |
| 26 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |
| 27 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 28 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |