Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 2 | His comrades in arms had made their views known to him quite openly and , in any case , he could not have remained ignorant in a country so full of informers , police and intelligence services as Spain then was . |
| 3 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 4 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 5 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 6 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 7 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 8 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 9 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 10 | When Birkenhead left office in 1928 , Baldwin accepted his resignation with a reluctance which was convincing because honestly expressed : ‘ We shall part , on my side at least , with a feeling of personal regret which I could not have believed possible four years ago . ’ |
| 11 | But many people felt that the camera should not have stayed fixed on the couple as they reached climax . |
| 12 | It is beyond dispute that advances in medicine and improvements in living conditions have enabled individuals who at previous times would not have survived severe illness or chronic handicaps to live on , perhaps with some disability , into their seventh , eighth , and ninth decades . |
| 13 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 14 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 15 | This seems unfortunate since pre-emptive rights are particularly needed in relation to those private companies which are essentially incorporated partnerships and it is difficult to see why , here , the Act could not have treated private companies in the same way as public ones . |
| 16 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 17 | Tod says Sam should not have gone soft on a blab who squealed . |
| 18 | It would not have gone unnoticed . ’ |
| 19 | This monopoly was defended in the same way as that of the East India Company : the Royal Africa Company had to meet the expenses of building and manning forts on the West African coast as protection against other Europeans , and private traders could not have undertaken fixed costs of this sort . |
| 20 | If we fail to present this reality , we will not have achieved full sociological understanding of the phenomenon we seek to explain . |
| 21 | Boardroom upsets could not have done other than harm to the playing side of the club , he went on . |
| 22 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , the article was moderate in tone and presented both sides of the case ; it would not have impaired judicial authority or added much to the growing moral pressure on the manufacturers to settle the claim . |
| 24 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 25 | The member who brought this matter to our notice stated that had he known about this in one particular case , a capital gains tax assessment due by a client would not have become payable in consequence of the option available to pay at one-half the taxpayer 's rate of income tax . |
| 26 | The expression " capital sum " does not include any sum which could not have become payable to the settlor except in one of the events specified in the proviso to TA 1988 , s673(3) ( these relate to bankruptcy , assignment , marriage and death under the age of 25 ) . |
| 27 | If I had elected to stay there , I probably would not have become homeless five years later . |
| 28 | This may or may not have involved departmental heads in planning induction sessions with year or house heads for in-coming pupils . |
| 29 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 30 | I would not think of him as evil , but he could not have felt real love for me . |