Example sentences of "[adv] not have [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the victim in the latter case had known of the facts , he would presumably not have bought the car . |
| 2 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 3 | For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom . |
| 4 | Because of continuing financial difficulties and still not having sold the flat , we have had to leave YWAM for the moment . |
| 5 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 6 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 7 | While Mr Fallon will probably not have had the chance to read the report , we think it unwise for him to dismiss it out of hand . |
| 8 | The work of gerontologists seems often not to have reached the policymakers , the economists and the public . |
| 9 | Regardless of the experience of your senior nurse momentary aberrations do occur , particularly under pressure , and he or she may simply not have realised the implications of what was being asked . |
| 10 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 11 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 12 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 13 | He chose to make a serious attempt at integrating scientific and religious perspectives , even though his clerical critics would almost certainly not have welcomed the intrusion of science into their domain . |