Example sentences of "not to have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place this tax was not , in my view , paid pursuant to a contract that if the money was held not to have been payable it would then fall due to be repaid , thus excluding any right to interest before Nolan J. 's decision . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him . |
| 3 | Very likely he was simply lying on his bed in a state of dejection and , perhaps , of remorse for his massacre of " the possessions " which was now generally thought not to have been necessary . |
| 4 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 5 | Mr Richard Aikens , QC , for the Independent , said that ironically the subject matter had now been held by the House of Lords not to have been confidential , in the sense that in October last year the Law Lords refused to grant permanent injunctions against the Observer and the Guardian , ruling in favour of freedom of speech . |
| 6 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 7 | His own farming seems not to have been profitable , however , perhaps because of his other activities ; he and his heirs sold off over 500 acres in the later seventeenth century . |
| 8 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 9 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 10 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 11 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 12 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 13 | Mr Prescott said yesterday : ‘ For the authority not to have been able to answer these sorts of questions , without going to Eurotunnel at that late stage when rolling stock had already been ordered , is totally unacceptable . ’ |
| 14 | THE Tories are said not to have been able to get in right in 13 years . |