Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 2 | It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road . |
| 3 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 4 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 5 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 6 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 7 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 8 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 9 | He should not have lost with such a lead . |
| 10 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 11 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 12 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 13 | She should not have gone to that party . |
| 14 | The conditions of the moral economy have been met , okay the landlords have been forced to if one accepted that was the way in which the peasants saw the world they would not have gone beyond that . |
| 15 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 16 | The neutrinos and antineutrinos , however , would not have annihilated with each other , because these particles interact with themselves and with other particles only very weakly . |
| 17 | I stress ‘ of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity ’ because it is the peculiar combinatorial potency of expressions in natural language which , it seems to me , could not have emerged by any evolutionary mechanism unless the users of the system were capable of the sort of second-order intentional states involved in the Gricean mechanism . |
| 18 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 19 | They might not have existed for all the notice Miss Jarman took . |
| 20 | A system of teacher appraisal , of the sort proposed in a report from a national steering group last week , would not have helped in either of these cases . |
| 21 | Animals such as mussels would not be spread so liberally around the world — indeed they could not have evolved at all — unless they had a phase as mobile plankton . |
| 22 | They would undoubtedly have alienated much of their ‘ middle class ’ support , and would not have won over any working class Tories . |
| 23 | During Key Biscayne , Jennifer was asked if she agreed with Monica Seles ' current belief that if she had known then , what she knows now , what life on the tennis circuit would be like , she would not have started at such an early age . |
| 24 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
| 25 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 26 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 27 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 28 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 29 | When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the charterer himself might not have dealt with any or all shippers , because he delegated this function to the vessel 's master . |