Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 2 | The parties can not have intended such a consequence . |
| 3 | But early users of the language would not have made such a distinction . |
| 4 | ‘ I should not have made such quick assumptions . ’ |
| 5 | It is thought that the Criminal Law Revision Committee , the Report of which formed the basis of the Theft Act , would not have wanted such a result but would have preferred the outcome to be theft ( para. 65 ) . |
| 6 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 7 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 8 | A second possibility is that the male 's spectacular plumage indicates that he is free of parasites , otherwise he could not have grown such superb feathers . |
| 9 | ‘ She would not have exhibited such joy as you are doing , ’ said the new Lord Dacre drily . |
| 10 | Mme Guérigny could not have borne such a thing . |
| 11 | But , then , he could not have foreseen such terrible days as these , when ‘ the contemplation of futurity ’ inspired only fear and dread . |
| 12 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 13 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
| 14 | He could not have visualised such a desperate situation as the one which he had found . |
| 15 | I would not have felt such a burst of passion for a relative . ’ |
| 16 | Northern Brave , the probable favourite , was rather disappointing last time out , and Valiant Boy may not have won such a good race as Stay Awake . |
| 17 | A leading Slovene politician , Jože Smole , who has held many high positions , including a period as governor of the National Bank and another as federal minister of finance , maintained ( Politika , 25 August 1987 ) that the directors of Agrokomerc would not have issued such a large number of uncovered bills of exchange without the approval of the local commune , the Bihać bank , the Associated Banks of Sarajevo , the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and the Social Accounting Service of Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
| 18 | I would not have thought such a style of waiting a great stimulant to appetite . ’ |
| 19 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 20 | ‘ No doubt if you had made a speedier recovery , I might not have enjoyed such a free hand ; but then , your illness was prolonged by your feverish attack of conscience with regard to your precious daughter ! |
| 21 | Such timber buildings would have been built using the accumulated experience of the community and would not have seemed such an intricate task to those who regularly witnessed the activity . |
| 22 | Her school has a high proportion of ethnic minority children where I felt Balbinder might not have seemed such a problem . |
| 23 | ‘ You can not have expected such a satisfactory development for the World at such a late stage in the debate . ’ |
| 24 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 25 | It need not have had such fears . |
| 26 | Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty . |