Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] not have taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , he argues , the misery of large numbers of the agricultural and manufacturing proletariats at the end of the eighteenth century had been the general condition of the labouring population throughout the century , then industrialisation could not have taken place for it depended on " the home sales of articles of everyday life to a section of the labour force which was neither very poor nor very rich " but which wielded an effective purchasing power in the face of many difficulties . |
| 2 | We wish to thank both these bodies for the support without which the Conference could not have taken place . |
| 3 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 4 | We also greatly appreciated the support of our sponsors without which the event could not have taken place . |
| 5 | So far as white settlement is concerned , the rapid peopling of the Canadian prairies and north country , of southern , central , and eastern Africa could not have taken place at such a speed without the railway . |
| 6 | Had we followed the advice of our so-called revolutionary counsellors , this substantial move toward a political revolution would not have taken place to anything like the extent shown by the figures . |
| 7 | What these figures will not have taken account of is , for example , the 54,000 kilos of frogs legs imported in 1986 mainly from Bangladesh and Indonesia . |
| 8 | To Angela I convey my grateful thanks for undertaking the needlework responsibility in 1986 ; without whom this exhibition would not have taken place in such a lavish way . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you feel that the killing would not have taken place had overcrowding been less intense ? ’ asked Merrick , pulling a pair of spectacles from his top pocket . |
| 10 | Such analysis suggests the company was never viable from the start and the buy-out should not have taken place . |
| 11 | The growth of formal education systems could not have taken place without the incorporation of sectors in society , which had previously been excluded . |