Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts .
2 Without himself he would have died , for which else , of them all , would not have stopped running after such punishment ?
3 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.
4 Secondly , on the broader ground that the legislature could not have intended to give power to a court of summary jurisdiction to control nuisances from such works .
5 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 .
6 The list could be expanded to incorporate any treaty which provides for mutuality , reciprocity , or where the personal identity of the other party is important , for then , by definition the parties can not have intended to allow assignment .
7 ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) .
8 Now these and similar comments would require careful scrutiny if the thrust of the argument were to the effect that Parliament could not have intended to establish an inquisitorial régime of this kind in relation to serious or complex fraud alone .
9 The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] .
10 After temporary repairs the ship set out for the United States on a voyage it would not have made had the collision not occurred .
11 What Pepper v Hart does is bring to an end an anomaly most lay people would not have believed existed : that the courts , when trying to interpret the meaning of statutory provisions , have not been allowed to take into consideration Parliamentary debates and the legislators ' intentions during the passing of a Bill .
12 However great the risks of parting with one 's collection , Gould could not have hoped to carry with him from Hobart the enormous quantities of skins , skeletons , eggs , nests , plants , and seeds he had amassed .
13 No Englishman could now have presented himself in Vienna without attracting the attention of the Grand Army , and with his accent he could not have hoped to pass for Austrian .
14 It will not have escaped notice that minuses predominate towards the right hand side of the table .
15 Roderick Random need not have elected to travel from Newcastle to London by road .
16 ‘ I would not have wanted to see either player carted off to hospital because of a tackle like that which was dangerously high .
17 It was said that he always got the man a club did n't want to sell , but when he signed Ted Taylor from Oldham Athletic he got the man the club might not have wanted to sell .
18 Zuwaya said they would not have wanted to win an election that way ; and some Magharba — admittedly few , the majority being unquestioningly jubilant — said that just ends had been achieved by improper means .
19 If there were one team in the First Division that Forest would not have wanted to face without Pearce it would be Manchester United , who have , in Lee Sharpe , Ryan Giggs and Andrei Kanchelskis , three of the best wingers in the country .
20 She would not have moved to save her life .
21 One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target .
22 Would I or would I not have liked to inherit an estate , even one of modest dimensions ?
23 He would not have liked to guess her age , had never seen her in anything other than half-light , and knew nothing about her beyond the fact that she came from a village to the north which she had told him , stood in the shadow of the pyramid of Saqqara .
24 She stood a better chance , she thought , upon her own : though a chance of what she would not have liked to have said .
25 It looked like a piece of Above technology — something they never saw out in the fields — but he would not have liked to have guessed just what .
26 Clara would not have liked to wrestle with its huge ornate metallic bolt .
27 The House of Lords would certainly not have survived had it not been reformed by Harold Macmillan 's Life Peerages Act of 1958 .
28 With the latter recruitment , Detroit became a city of largely black population ; the automobile industry would not have survived had it had to rely on the sons and daughters of its original workers .
29 There is another aspect to the ancient-astronaut hypothesis : perhaps our remote ancestors could not have survived had it not been for the fact that they were destined to do so .
30 In the words of , General Manager of the Entertainments Section , without management and dedication the would not have survived to become the major force in British theatre that it is today .
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