Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 2 | Spain would have been cowed without Wellington 's field force : Wellington could not have operated with a small army without the diversionary effects of Spanish resistance . |
| 3 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 4 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 5 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 6 | If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household . |
| 7 | Then , at least , Israel might not have to respond in a clear-cut way . |
| 8 | I certainly would not advocate as many in rugby union , but a maximum of one per team seems perfectly reasonable , and they should not have to go through a qualifying period . |
| 9 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 10 | During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators . |
| 11 | The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis . |
| 12 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 13 | But again , some of the ladies whom my brother Sam bedded with … well , I would not have touched with a 20 foot pole . |
| 14 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 15 | According to Mr Dieter Brauninger , an economist at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt , the newcomers could not have arrived at a better time : a period of dynamic growth , when gaps created by the fall in the birth rate in the past two decades need to be filled . |
| 16 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 17 | Such employment leaps in particular industries could not have occurred in a tight labour market with slow labour-force growth . |
| 18 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 20 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 21 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 22 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 24 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 25 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 26 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 27 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |
| 28 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 29 | As we saw earlier , the technology of the time certainly could not have coped with a live street recording , so one wonders how the company got away with that . |
| 30 | Dickens did n't have to contend with a daily Miles Kington piece , or a weekly Spitting Image , or Drop the Dead Donkey , or Week Ending . |