Example sentences of "not have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 2 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 3 | As Bowers has pointed out , however , it must be questioned whether the same results could not have been achieved by a strictly enforced parking policy , given the lack of parking space . |
| 4 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 5 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 6 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 7 | Dad may not have been endowed with a surplus of brain-matter , but he was no fool . |
| 8 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 9 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 10 | I wonder also if the book might not have been packaged in a more sensible manner . |
| 11 | If there were simply no correlation whatsoever between the electrical output of a photo-electric cell and some other measure of light intensity directly or indirectly related to experience , it would not have been accepted as a way of measuring light intensity . |
| 12 | Provided that if the Lease shall not have been granted within a period of 12 months from the date hereof the Tenant shall be at liberty to assign underlet or otherwise deal with the benefit of this agreement subject to the same conditions as would be applicable to a corresponding transaction if the Lease had then been granted |
| 13 | ‘ I regret that this whole matter could not have been handled in a more constructive manner . ’ |
| 14 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 15 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
| 16 | Promotion and sales may not have been seen as a high status activity deserving of such high level management attention . |
| 17 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 18 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 19 | The façade , as well as the rest of the outside , is of Candoglia marble , a white stone with a pink tinge and blue veins that could not have been bettered as a choice for so ornate a structure . |
| 20 | In this connection , he claims that an increase in the number of myelomas ( tumour of the bone marrow ) in the area during the 1970s would not have been expected as a result of iodine-131 contamination , but could have arisen from ingestion of polonium-210 , an alpha emitter . |
| 21 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 22 | Normally , the smiddy would not have been opened on a Sunday but the animal was in pain and its owner said he needed the mount urgently . |
| 23 | Who would not have been deceived by a king disguised , and in prose ? |
| 24 | In September 1861 Valuev wrote a long paper on the progress of emancipation which concluded by acknowledging that " Sometimes the need arises to legitimize things which have not been and could not have been envisaged by a law " . |
| 25 | Indeed it is impossible for us to imagine a social system operated by human beings which was not ordered by language ; human culture , as we know it , could not have been invented by a society of deaf mutes . |
| 26 | Greenpeace had argued that the commissioning tests , which involve the use of radioactive materials , should not have been allowed before a final decision on the plant 's go-ahead . |
| 27 | Even the term ‘ cantata ’ appears not to have been used by a German composer before 1638 . |