Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | At this stage , we have an opportunity to ensure that the legislation will allow their voices to be heard through formal channels so that they do not have to resort to the usual practice of writing to the appropriate organisations . |
| 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 | Whilst this may look like easy fun for those who did not have to cope with the impossible timetables and endless pressures , the reason for criticism is not to deride the working groups but to understand in concrete terms the limitations of the system now in operation . |
| 6 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 7 | But we do not have to refer to the para-normal , our understanding of art and poetry and our experiences in mysticism are developments of new senses . |
| 8 | We should not have to rely on the private sector to assist in providing facilities especially as , currently in many cases it does not provide such facilities . |
| 9 | They should not have to rely upon the private Bill procedure , because the issue is too important . |
| 10 | Plants and animals that were incapable of acclimatizing to cold would not have survived in the cooling environment of the early Pleistocene . |
| 11 | Then , at least , Israel might not have to respond in a clear-cut way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the local authority knows that it wishes to privatise and not use local authority employees at all , it does not have to go through the compulsory tender procedure . |
| 14 | Fortunately , the researcher does not have to go through the bound volumes one by one to see what they contain . |
| 15 | The difference between this and the two previous outcomes is that under this procedure the agency does not have to go through the whole decision-making process again . |
| 16 | During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators . |
| 17 | The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis . |
| 18 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 19 | The DPP statement on June 14 said that the jury in the 1976 trial might not have realised from the scientific evidence provided that the seven could have been innocently contaminated with nitroglycerine , but that " in the light of current scientific knowledge this was a real possibility , however remote " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Let's not have sniping from the Tory benches once we 've taken this decision . |
| 22 | At any other record company , the protesters would not have got beyond the uniformed commissionaires on the door ; at no other record company would you have found a group still wearing kaftans . |
| 23 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 24 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 25 | He was just pointing out little do 's and don't 's that might not have occurred to the eager amateur . |
| 26 | Such employment leaps in particular industries could not have occurred in a tight labour market with slow labour-force growth . |
| 27 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 28 | Razumikhin would not have laughed like the jolly Nastasya . |
| 29 | Job fairs are usually very lively and informal , and you can roam at leisure , surveying what is on offer and gathering literature on jobs you might not have considered in the everyday run of things . |
| 30 | Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress . |