Example sentences of "not [vb infin] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rather larger number of situations the authorities will have quite explicit duties but will not have been given detailed guidance on how to carry them out . |
| 2 | If we had not given investors the chance to bid for Ballylumford and taken steps towards privatisation , that vital option would not have been made available to us . |
| 3 | The gift will not have been made subject to a reservation . |
| 4 | A court official admitted : ‘ The records should not have been made public and it is understandable people get upset . ’ |
| 5 | The girls would have fears on the island , especially at night , and these may or may not have been made manifest in a tangible object such as the beast . |
| 6 | It may not have been called formal consultation process . |
| 7 | Rat , Badger and Mole would not have been seen dead with The Economist : Mr Toad might have flaunted it unread on the hall table . |
| 8 | Bentley was mentally deficient and many believed he should not have been held responsible for his actions . |
| 9 | Under the old law they could not have been found guilty of larceny , because the seller agreed to transfer the property in the goods to Ballay , and the fact that the seller 's agreement was obtained by a fraud does not affect that conclusion . |
| 10 | In the judgment , Lord Denman C.J. states that the court need not inquire what the effect of a demurrer to that plea would have been , thus hinting that if the plaintiff had then demurred , the defence might not have been found sufficient . |
| 11 | Shortly thereafter , the Party took the unusual step of assembling the Armed Forces heads and demanding their collective endorsement of Beria 's arrest — a step which might not have been judged necessary by a leadership firmly in the saddle and truly confident of its prerogatives . |
| 12 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |