Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 2 | In Tait , where Lord Clyde considered that the clerk should not have rejected the late application , his Lordship ordered the board to hold a meeting to consider the application under s.31(2) . |
| 3 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 4 | If the patient has been misled or misinformed he may not have given a genuine consent or refusal . |
| 5 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 6 | What can be seen is that Parliament can not have intended an implied limitation along the lines of Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 . |
| 7 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 8 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 9 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 10 | Though the shooting on the film set , if it was n't accidental , implied that Nigel Steen knew of his involvement , he still might not have realized the direct connection with Jacqui , and certainly was no nearer getting the Hereford Road address . |
| 11 | He could not have endured the clamouring siren bells that marked an alarm and that caused A area to be sealed down , passage in and out of the Citadel suspended until the malfunction was located . |
| 12 | I reminded him of my advice that he should not have renounced the Upper House so speedily . |
| 13 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 14 | ‘ Without the programme I would not have prepared a proper business plan or met the contacts essential to business ’ . |
| 15 | In fact civil wars may not have endangered the Merovingian state to the extent that Gregory implies . |
| 16 | Jesus may not have supported a particular party line , but His criticism of the political-religious leaders of His day led to His crucifixion on a Roman gibbet . |
| 17 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 18 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 19 | Dublin claimed allegations made in Parliament and the British Press linking Mr Ryan with the IRA meant he would not have faced a fair trial . |
| 20 | The Hammonds , intent on fraud , certainly would not have explained the proposed sale transaction to Mrs. Steed . |
| 21 | And success by striking civil servants , seeking an improvement in pay , would not have imposed an intolerable strain on the state . |
| 22 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 23 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 24 | So even if the Queen had disapproved of her daughter 's remarriage , she would not have risked a national outcry by snubbing the wedding . |
| 25 | Yet , the people , who might assert this , will not have done a careful costing of royal finances . |
| 26 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 27 | Calves in this category may not have developed a strong immunity and after treatment should not be returned to the field which was the source of infection ; if this is impossible , parenteral ivermectin is the drug of choice since its residual effect prevents reinfection for a further three weeks . |
| 28 | It was probable he did not realize the police had the letter and he might not have guessed the true reason the typewriters had been borrowed . |
| 29 | For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software . |
| 30 | It may be concluded that without the experience of events since 1979 , this ‘ faith in the possibility of change ’ could not have become the guiding principle of the prisons . |