Example sentences of "not [vb infin] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 2 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 3 | But without Violet Blake , this match would not have been taking place . |
| 4 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 5 | The executive transporter bay was a chaos of foam and whirling shapes which might or might not have been armed troopers . |
| 6 | Last year the taxman pocketed 550 million from people who should not have been paying tax — or who paid too much . |
| 7 | I do n't think he was any more upset , but I might n't have been paying attention . ’ |
| 8 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 9 | Well he should n't have been having drinks . |
| 10 | They would n't have been recruiting schoolboys : they 'd want mature people , organisers , types with a sense of responsibility and a bit of gloom , kids and a mortgage . |
| 11 | numeracy because Andrew would n't have been testing algebra or things like that , you 'd have just |
| 12 | Carnelian 's scheme could n't have been to expose Jaq to whatever type of recycling of human bodies occurred in that underworld . |