Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the argumentative Balbindor had been correct in saying I should not have drunk from the waterfall springing from the Other Side . |
| 2 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 3 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 4 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 5 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 6 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 7 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 8 | Many species would not have survived without the weapon of the pre-emptive strike . |
| 9 | Israel could not have survived in the desert without God 's miraculous provision . |
| 10 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 11 | As to Mrs. Leapor 's dramatic writings , it would not be overrating their merit to say that much worse plays have succeeded on the stage : yet it is probable her Unhappy Father would not have pleased in the acting . |
| 12 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 13 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 14 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 15 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |
| 16 | Hardline resistance to Mr Gaidar and his shock therapy programme , which conservatives say is sending millions into beggary , will not have ended with the vote in the Grand Kremlin Palace and is likely to move back on to the streets with more rabble-rousing in coming months . |
| 17 | In the past , your affection would not have ended in a hug and the giving of warmth to each other . |
| 18 | Perhaps he was n't as completely convinced as he made out that a lost boy , however bright and confident , could not have ended in the Comer . |
| 19 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 20 | He took a holiday he should not have done during the Gulf War crisis when this country was facing its greatest possible crisis . |
| 21 | The survey of 866 dentists in the dental journal The Probe , says : ‘ When dentists were asked whether they had extracted , or referred for extraction , any teeth which they might not have done before the introduction of the 1990 contract , 61 per cent said they had , while nearly 37 per cent said they had not . ’ |
| 22 | No doubt the now dispossessed Kurds and the Shiites have been surprised to learn that they did something they should not have done in the interests of geopolitical reality . |
| 23 | Such depositional settings could not have existed under the temperature extremes and humidity ( annual precipitation minus evaporation of 0 — 1mmday ) simulated by the models . |
| 24 | If hypertension has been neglected in the diabetic care of the past , lipids might not have existed for the attention they have received . |
| 25 | The close relationship between settlement and cemetery may not have existed throughout the country . |
| 26 | While the TMI accident would not have progressed to the stage it did had it not been for human error , it highlighted the fact that reactor designers and operators had to give more attention to the reliability of the system and its components , and their interaction under accident conditions . |
| 27 | The opportunity to discuss problems with members of other district societies was a great assistance to me in leading the various debates of the Southern Society during my presidential year and would certainly not have arisen without the opportunity to travel . |
| 28 | Moreover the Communist International was located in Moscow , the capital of a Communist state , derived its funds from a governing party , and could not have functioned without the help of its largest member , the Soviet Communist Party . |
| 29 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
| 30 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |