Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 2 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 3 | The school authorities were unsympathetic : the dinner ladies would only accept you into the school to see the nurse if you were on the point of death , + my teacher kindly informed me that I should n't have been running in the playground . |
| 4 | Its owner is upset by what 's happened , but feels Mark should n't have been playing with the dog in the first place . |
| 5 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 6 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 7 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 8 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 9 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 10 | " She could n't have been talking to Rome , " Seddon said . |
| 11 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 12 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 13 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 14 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 15 | Eighteen months ago they would n't have been asking for more money |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't have been making for Gullholm , though , can I ? ’ |
| 17 | B : I sha n't have been goin' to . |
| 18 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |
| 19 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |