Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 5 | In the past , your affection would not have ended in a hug and the giving of warmth to each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 8 | However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained . |
| 9 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 10 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 11 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |