Example sentences of "[not/n't] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think some of the erm er they 've crossed all the P Way ones out and er appear not to have crossed any of the works , bridges , B E S out . |
| 2 | Lydia thought herself very slow not to have realised all this before , but then she reflected that the rapidity with which they had learned the circumstances of this secluded family was in itself strange . |
| 3 | It was not just her station in life which precluded choice but life itself and she felt foolish not to have realised this long ago . |
| 4 | MacQuillan , as a newcomer to the Fleet Street scene and a man who was averse to advice from others , appeared not to have realized this . |
| 5 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 6 | It may be that ‘ post ’ will need progressive reinterpretation to include telex , facsimile transmission and other forms of ‘ electronic mail ’ but international conventions appear not to have explored these possibilities thus far . |
| 7 | Britain , the only other EC country not to have implemented all provisions of the directive , is doing so in the Criminal Justice bill that has just come before the House of Commons . |
| 8 | I ought not to have done that . |
| 9 | PSR1706–44 , which has just reached the shell , seems not to have done this yet . |
| 10 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 11 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’ |
| 13 | Ought she not to have said that ? |
| 14 | I should have preferred not to have to raise this matter in an Adjournment debate . |
| 15 | Ramsay had hoped not to have to bring this forward if it could be avoided . |
| 16 | But let us assume that when we question him he proves not to have overlooked such dangers . |
| 17 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 18 | BRENTFORD 'S run of six successive wins came to an end before their best crowd of the season and West Ham were unlucky not to have taken all three points . |
| 19 | Although the government continued to suspect him , he seems not to have taken any further part in rebellious activities and tried to dissuade his old friend Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] from organizing another rebellion in 1803 . |
| 20 | But I say you 're foolish not to have put that in the budget . |
| 21 | You claim not to have found any lighter , is that it ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 23 | ‘ It is dramatic stuff , I believe , though I confess not to have read any . |