Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M. |
| 2 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 3 | Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first . |
| 4 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
| 5 | Crucifixion was a penalty reserved for transgressions against Roman law , and Rome would not have bothered to crucify a man preaching a purely spiritual message , or a message of peace . |
| 6 | Rather than railing against American policy in Vietnam in 1966 – 67 , might he not have attempted to mediate a solution to the conflict ? |
| 7 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |
| 8 | The Derby Mercury published on 12 December a description it would not have dared print a week earlier : ‘ They were dressed in dirty plaids and as dirty shirts , without breeches and some without shoes . |
| 9 | State radio and television reported a story that they would not have dared touch a few years earlier . |
| 10 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 11 | The boots looked very much too big , but she appreciated that he would n't have liked to lend a pair of Laura 's . |
| 12 | She was no Harriet-Meredith would n't have minded betting a few men bought her champagne . |
| 13 | and he goes well that 's a million to one chance that that would , and Des Lyneham goes I would n't have minded having a little flutter on that . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 15 | I only said that to annoy her as Fenella was leaning over the staircase banister to fix some tinsel with double-sided tape and one more inch and she need n't have bothered wearing a skirt at all . |
| 16 | Whoever did the planning on this job could n't have expected to find a second person getting into the car . ’ |