Example sentences of "not have happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he admits , one would not have happened without the other . |
| 2 | It could not have happened unless the Church had helped to pay for the heating . |
| 3 | But it could not have happened to anyone else , she was almost forgetting that this had not been exactly a freak accident in the way that everyone thought . |
| 4 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 5 | It might not have happened . |
| 6 | It might not have happened . |
| 7 | It might not have happened it might not … . |
| 8 | Could one really put one 's hand on one 's heart and swear that the Ponting case would not have happened if Harold Wilson had been Prime Minister ? |
| 9 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 10 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 11 | When Gandalf tells Frodo about the Ring , Frodo replies ‘ I wish it need not have happened in my time ’ , but Gandalf reproves him : ‘ So do I … and so do all who live to see such times . |
| 12 | If she had n't started crying , what might not have happened between him and his father ? |
| 13 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 14 | Many observers believe that this outcome would not have happened if BA had not been privatised as such a dominant carrier in the UK , but others argue that this claim is irrelevant and that world competition is what matters ; BA and BCal were both relatively small on the world stage , but might have been able to compete effectively in a merged form . |
| 15 | This leads to a tendency to reduce the form of critique to the form of natural science which , Habermas argues , would not have happened if Marx had maintained a distinction between instrumental and communicative action . |
| 16 | The appointment of Mr Stevens was a classic case of promoting a man beyond his level of competence and could not have happened if there had not been deep distrust in official circles of people who know what they are talking about . |
| 17 | Such rapid recycling simply could not have happened either in socialist systems ( dependent on credit-by- fiat ) , or by Western governments attempting to get the taxpayers ' democratically elected representatives in government to vote the funds for expanded government-to-government loans , i.e. foreign aid . |
| 18 | To draw an explicit conclusion about what we have so far of causes and effects , if a particular event c caused some event e , then one of these two criteria was satisfied : ( I ) If c had not happened , then e would not have happened . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) If cc had not existed , e would not have happened . |
| 20 | If each of the others had not been complete , then if cc had not been , e would not have happened . |
| 21 | Then ( 6 ) If none of cc or cc " or cc " or … existed , even if there occurred any change x consistent with that and with e 's absence , c would still not have happened . |
| 22 | More generally , if cc was a causal circumstance for c , and with the other terms defined as with ( 5 ) , we have this : ( 7 ) If none of cc " or cc " or … existed , then if cc had not existed , even if any change x had occurred logically consistent with that and with e 's absence , c would not have happened . |
| 23 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |
| 24 | We will have also to change all those things which would not have happened if the election had been delayed , e.g. Mrs Thatcher 's age at election time . |
| 25 | This is a caricature , to be sure , but it illustrates the attitude managers often take to the unexpected : ‘ It should not have happened . ’ |
| 26 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 27 | That should not have happened . ’ |
| 28 | A number of non-British visitors were heard to mutter that it would not have happened at Frankfurt . |
| 29 | When it does happen , all that the Minister will be able to say is , " It should not have happened . " |
| 30 | However , solidification of an appreciable fraction of any such core can not have happened since the Mercurian surface as we now see it began to be created , because the volume shrinkage of iron when it passes from the liquid to the solid phase is so large that the amount of internal contraction of the Mercurian surface would be far in excess of that observed . |