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

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1 While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation .
2 A great deal of growth was , however , in suburbs outside the limits of the city , which , until much later , was the preferred domicile of the affluent , and so the population of the City itself may not have exceeded 50 000 .
3 She could not have believed ten years could so alter two people .
4 Indeed , the Minister of the Legation , Captain ( later Sir ) Vyvyan Holt , was later to say that he would not have survived one of their many forced marches in intense cold had it not been for Blake 's courage and help .
5 But clearly the old tale from Herodotus would not have survived 2,500 years without any supporting evidence whatsoever , so how can the rare cases that have kept the story going be explained ?
6 In the heart of the Pennines , Skipton ( Table 2.9 ) , traditionally the centre of Craven , was the only place for many a mile recognisable as a town in any real sense ; its population can not have reached 500 .
7 Any employed Home Improvement borrower , including self-employed , who will not have reached 65 years of age when their Improvement Loan expires , will qualify .
8 Only if he succeeded after 14 December 685 would he not have completed twenty years by 14 December 705 .
9 Peter Roebuck might not have looked 13 in 1969 , but then he could well be taken for less than his 36 years now .
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