Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] at [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 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 6 | Had he been an ordinary shop assistant it would not have done at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Or you may not have thought at all . |
| 10 | When times were good , men married earlier and some were able to marry who otherwise could not have married at all — and vice versa . |
| 11 | ‘ We should not have come at all . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |