Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many people felt that the camera should not have stayed fixed on the couple as they reached climax . |
| 2 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 3 | Tod says Sam should not have gone soft on a blab who squealed . |
| 4 | As long as you have solicitors who can be admitted to the Personal Injury Panel or who can apply to take a Legal Aid Board franchise , there is no reason why they should not have experienced legal executives working under their control . |
| 5 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 6 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 7 | This may or may not have involved departmental heads in planning induction sessions with year or house heads for in-coming pupils . |
| 8 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 9 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 10 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 11 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 12 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 13 | More than one treaty is known to have been made with the Burgundians , although some may not have had imperial approval . |
| 14 | In the absence of such a general right many multilateral treaties have accession clauses to encourage wide participation ( especially from among States which may not have had treaty-making capacity at the time of the treaty 's conclusion ) . |
| 15 | This solves the common law problem where a particular purpose is made known by a consumer to a dealer who may not have had ostensible or actual authority to receive such communication on the part of the financing institution . |
| 16 | Some parishes contained chapelries or chapels-of-ease , which may or may not have had independent rights to perform baptism , marriage and burial ceremonies . |
| 17 | Coonts may not have got lost once in three months of eyeball navigation around the Lower 48 , but his writing could do with a position fix . |
| 18 | Although I may not have got near to the ‘ God ’ of that particular place , those hundreds of hours spent in chapel were not wasted . |
| 19 | Bolton may not have enjoyed outstanding success as an architect but he was greatly respected ; it was as a scholar that he excelled . |
| 20 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 21 | The historian of these events believes that the CNAA may not have shown sufficient flexibility : ‘ if the same attitude as was adopted in the early 1970s by its new Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , had been taken , amalgamation might have occurred sooner ’ . |
| 22 | Interestingly 20 of 23 severe oesophagitis patients smoked or drank heavily and of those who claimed no such history one had scleroderma and another may not have disclosed full details . |
| 23 | The existing technology may not have offered sufficient new opportunities , in contrast to Europe and Japan where the combination of backward technology and low wages offered great scope for profitable modernization . |
| 24 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 25 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 26 | Although we did not attend it , we had visited St Stephen 's , Gloucester Road , together , no doubt out of forgivable curiosity , though Eliot might not have thought excusable any curiosity he had been the means of exciting in that sphere . |
| 27 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 28 | Strange facts that Flaubert might not have found strange . |
| 29 | ‘ In the early days of my partnership with Graeme Souness , the first-team squad might not have had sufficient strength in depth to have handled this kind of troubled build-up , ’ said Smith . |
| 30 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |