Example sentences of "[pron] not have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could I not have been happy for him ? |
| 2 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 3 | Yet would it not have been better for them if 't were not done at all ? |
| 4 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 5 | Would it not have been better to imagine the possibility of a different , better world ? |
| 6 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 7 | But would it not have been better , he mused , to have left the banqueting hall and defended the Residency where there was a well ? |
| 8 | If that is the case , would it not have been better for the hon. Gentleman to keep his own counsel when he stated publicly that we were bound to fail in our negotiations ? |
| 9 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 10 | But would it not have been sensible to go and see for himself , before rushing off a wholly inaccurate letter ? |
| 11 | But , in that case , would it not have been enough to defend Saudi Arabia and maintain the pressure on Saddam Hussein through sanctions ? |