Example sentences of "not [vb pp] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 2 | So , in their own interest , the firms should be very careful that the finger is not pointed at them , that they are not seen to have acted in a way that abuses their power and cuts across their independence and integrity . ’ |
| 3 | He is not thought to have returned to the flat in Chelsea where he lived alone . |
| 4 | But , in my judgment , it would operate against no others ; it would not operate against a person who is not shown to have taken with such notice of the circumstances under which the deed was executed . |
| 5 | The purist may , however , still balk at the idea of a negative-energy field , even though to date the C- field is not known to have led to any conceptual difficulty either in classical or quantum physics . |
| 6 | However , wood from Trelleborg now implies a construction date of c.980 , and if the other camps are of the same period this would seem to be too early for a connection with Danish raids on England , which are not known to have begun until a decade later ( but see pages 20-2 ) . |
| 7 | ( Even in the cause of evasion , Aveling was not known to have spoken to any workers during the course of his tour . ) |