Example sentences of "not to have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 2 | I think some of the erm er they 've crossed all the P Way ones out and er appear not to have crossed any of the works , bridges , B E S out . |
| 3 | At first , the darkening official mood seems not to have troubled Prokofiev . |
| 4 | The inconsistency of demanding frankness and openness from the African while practising a form of government depending largely on influence wielded behind closed doors seems not to have troubled the British ; they assumed that it was precisely their own qualities of straightforwardness and transparent honesty which would effect the required transformation in the African character . |
| 5 | Naturally , once the first paragraph of his letter met my eyes , I sat down with reassurance to say how sorry I was not to have written earlier and to have delayed giving him an account of the Italian visit . |
| 6 | I am a bit embarrassed not to have written sooner but , inter alia , have been a little ‘ below par ’ this last week with a stinking cold and sore throat . |
| 7 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |
| 8 | All but one or two questions were concerned with basic mathematical concepts and skills , so that differences in curriculum might be thought not to have contributed greatly to failure . |
| 9 | It was not just her station in life which precluded choice but life itself and she felt foolish not to have realised this long ago . |
| 10 | How terrible to be thirty and not to have realised one 's ambitions ! |
| 11 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 12 | Fortunately Nicole did n't understand a word of her answer , though , from the thunderous frown that crossed Piers 's face , she would have been stupid not to have realised that Alyssia was being facetious . |
| 13 | Hall seems not to have fulfilled his promise to cost the winning designs , as Hunt , who presumably would have made the estimates , did not examine the plans , and there is no evidence of Hall having reported this information back to Parliament . |
| 14 | 23 Two of the four preludes , K.284a & equals K.396/300g ( ‘ praeambula ’ ) written for Nannerl , which , until recently , were thought not to have survived . |
| 15 | Captain Edward Tupper made attempts to organise at various fishing ports from April 1910 , and claimed a fishing membership of 5,000 for the NSFU in 1919 which appears not to have survived the post-war depression . |
| 16 | On the one hand the theologians of the fifth century were also experts in rhetoric , even if the style they chose as being appropriate to their religious works was different from that used by Sidonius in his letters and poems ; on the other , Sidonius is known to have composed some ecclesiastical works including an epitaph for the ascetic Abraham , poems for various churches , as well as a version of the Mass which appears not to have survived . |
| 17 | Desperate not to have to overtake , he 'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously . |
| 18 | He is a spy , he is a traitor , perhaps he is fortunate not to have faced the extreme penalty provided for in the Criminal Code . ‘ |
| 19 | This creature superficially resembled the modern amphioxus and had a bilobed head and pair of tentacles , as well as myotomes and a notochord which , unlike the amphioxus , appears not to have extended to the anterior . |
| 20 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 21 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |
| 22 | After a year his wife still appeared not to have noticed the smell of another woman on her husband 's face . |
| 23 | She would pretend not to have noticed Fru Møller 's absurdities . |
| 24 | Several boys had asked her to dance but she had refused them all , afraid she might miss her chance with Pete , but he seemed not to have noticed her at all in spite of Louise 's dress . |
| 25 | William appeared not to have noticed . |
| 26 | Even at such a moment as that there were eagles in other parts of the Cages who seemed not to have noticed what had happened . |
| 27 | Sheldukher , absorbed in his map , seemed not to have noticed its newly acquired air of placid servitude . |
| 28 | He would have to be blind not to have noticed that something in Cora-Beth 's manner towards him had changed ; that the looks she sometimes gave him were no longer open and friendly but questioning , as if she expected , or was hoping for , something more . |
| 29 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 30 | Melissa frowned , shook her head and put a finger to her lips but Eddie appeared not to have noticed . |