Example sentences of "[adv] not [vb infin] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Love , 25 , had two eagles and four birdies in a round which he said would probably not have been played on the USPGA tour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The building would simply not have been built . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Behavioural : Changes in values so that other people 's behaviour that would previously not have been accepted becomes progressively more tolerated if it relates to addictive disease . |
| 14 | It has led to our recognition of the difficulties inherent in the codes which texts employ to articulate what could otherwise not have been written , of the difficult negotiations between ideological expression and the things this expression seeks to characterise and thus control , and of the complexities of a text 's own negotiations with other texts . |
| 15 | These ideas may seem fanciful , but Price justifies such speculation as leading us to consider and test new hypotheses which might otherwise not have been considered . |
| 16 | It could almost certainly not have been done by air power alone . |
| 17 | Any writer dealing with Rodrigo must turn to Pidal , and this present work could certainly not have been accomplished without his scrupulous and immensely detailed account of the life and period of El Cid . |
| 18 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 19 | However , our Chemicals and the quality of life booklets would certainly not have been improved by the use of recycled paper , the environmental benefits of which are not unalloyed , according to chemists and papermakers . |