Example sentences of "[adv] not have [been] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Even worse , the government 's roads programme is guaranteed to bring even more traffic into circulation , the lessons of the past 50 years , that more roads generate more traffic , apparently not having been learnt .
2 LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff .
3 It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place .
4 Charles , who appeared momentarily not to have been listening , laughed absently .
5 For example , if you are unfairly made redundant because consideration was not given to offering you another job , your compensation might be discounted to take account of the fact that , had proper consideration been given , you might still not have been offered that job .
6 Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told .
7 This may be seen as a measure of the extent to which opportunities for successful study are being provided for students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving this success .
8 This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements .
9 Leaving aside the farce of the England v South Africa semifinal , where the complete lack of basic common sense applied would probably not have been salvaged by any rules , surely a fairer solution is to use an average of the target under the old and new systems .
10 Derek decided that in the position that Rory was standing , plus the possible cover defence from the Australians , that a try for England would probably not have been scored , so he simply awarded a penalty kick .
11 Love , 25 , had two eagles and four birdies in a round which he said would probably not have been played on the USPGA tour .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I replied I had not , since I had been lucky enough so far not to have been forced to fight for my survival .
15 The building would simply not have been built .
16 It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue .
17 And of course , being a composer , I think it would be very hard not to have been influenced by The Beatles . ’
18 Legislation has in fact been issued under general treaty powers which expressly states that it is intended to implement the Social Charter , such as Directive 91/533 on contracts of employment , which , since it was made under Article 100 which requires unanimity in the Council , must at the least not have been opposed by the United Kingdom minister .
19 Behavioural : Changes in values so that other people 's behaviour that would previously not have been accepted becomes progressively more tolerated if it relates to addictive disease .
20 It has led to our recognition of the difficulties inherent in the codes which texts employ to articulate what could otherwise not have been written , of the difficult negotiations between ideological expression and the things this expression seeks to characterise and thus control , and of the complexities of a text 's own negotiations with other texts .
21 These ideas may seem fanciful , but Price justifies such speculation as leading us to consider and test new hypotheses which might otherwise not have been considered .
22 On Fame ’ , ‘ Crumble Hall ’ , ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ , ‘ Advice to Sophronia ’ , ‘ The Visit ’ , and ‘ Man the Monarch ’ , were likely not to have been published .
23 It could almost certainly not have been done by air power alone .
24 Any writer dealing with Rodrigo must turn to Pidal , and this present work could certainly not have been accomplished without his scrupulous and immensely detailed account of the life and period of El Cid .
25 Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France .
26 However , our Chemicals and the quality of life booklets would certainly not have been improved by the use of recycled paper , the environmental benefits of which are not unalloyed , according to chemists and papermakers .
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