Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is , of course , that B might not have intended to communicate the assumption expressed by [ 15c ] . |
| 2 | In the words of , General Manager of the Entertainments Section , without management and dedication the would not have survived to become the major force in British theatre that it is today . |
| 3 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 4 | But 100 years ago , I am sure than many an older mechanical engineer would not have cared to contemplate the day when robots would be able to manufacture engine components to much higher tolerances than could be achieved then . |
| 5 | In the light of what we in our omniscience now know of Falkenhayn 's intentions , and of the hideous tragedy that was to ensue at Verdun , we may say that France should not have decided to hold the city at all costs . |
| 6 | That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies . |
| 7 | At last he turned to her and he could not have failed to see the anguish in her eyes . |
| 8 | Coleridge himself can not have failed to make the calculation that of four marriageable Fricker sisters , one was married to Robert Lovell , and another all but engaged to Southey . |
| 9 | ‘ Had I been in a civilian occupation , ’ he wrote , ‘ I should not have hesitated to pay the full amount . ’ |
| 10 | So far from killing himself over Wolfgang , he would not have hesitated to end the liaison if it interfered with his plans . ’ |
| 11 | Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it . |
| 12 | He would not have dared to take the decision alone to order his troops to open fire on the ANC marchers massing on his borders . |
| 13 | This would have benefited some of the smaller parties in East Germany , such as the PDS and the German Social Union ( DSU — the small East German equivalent of the Bavarian Christian Social Union — CSU ) , since they would not have had to surmount the 5 per cent hurdle required under the West German system to gain representation . |
| 14 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 15 | Why , though , could these supposed championship contenders not have tried to emulate the fine passing that had sprinkled the previous weekend 's Merseyside joust ? |
| 16 | Bizet need n't have bothered to go the exotic East to write The Pearl Fishers . |
| 17 | I wish I had his poise ; he ca n't have expected to see the fräulein , but has n't turned a hair . |
| 18 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 19 | You should n't have tried to conceal the truth from me . |