Example sentences of "not have [verb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , one would not have wished her to be miserable . |
| 3 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 4 | But had the statement been plainly defamatory of Crozier , the court would have ordered the settlement to be postponed until after his trial , and may not have allowed it to be made at all under the cloak of absolute privilege . |
| 5 | ‘ It would n't have killed him to be here for once . ’ |
| 6 | We would n't have wanted him to be on anyone else 's . ’ |
| 7 | She would n't have wanted you to be miserable . ’ |
| 8 | As to that other matter — ’ he stood up and came round his desk ‘ — I do n't have to ask you to be discreet , do I ? |
| 9 | But he had n't seemed the type somehow — she would n't have expected him to be drawn by the lure of so-called fame . |
| 10 | But surely you could n't have expected me to be carrying something so valuable around with me ? ’ |