Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 2 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 3 | I again would find it difficult to understand how ( a ) they could not have understood these documents ; and ( b ) that , if they did not understand them , they took no steps to consult their advisers . |
| 4 | We do not have to destroy all beliefs for some of them — even though false — sustain useful action . |
| 5 | The Indian did not have to do any thinking for himself . |
| 6 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 7 | No details on coherence of the supersecret X-ray laser demonstrated two years ago at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been reported in public , but it seems that that device probably would not have generated coherent output for similar reasons |
| 8 | They were interested in my opinions but not my circumstances , so that I did not have to invent any tales about my past . |
| 9 | It also means we do not have to cancel any matches because of the all weather surface . ’ |
| 10 | If Mr. Howell 's argument is correct , the school , even though over-subscribed , could not have adopted these sibling and proximity criteria in deciding which of the applicants ' parental preferences were to succeed and which fail . |
| 11 | You do not have to draw each axis to the zero point , but you must label each axis clearly to show what you have done . |
| 12 | Without Bully , her Red Riding Hood character would not have made much impression , but with the black-faced wolf-like dog following her she won loud applause . |
| 13 | Hence the major cause of unemployment lies outside the government 's responsibility and a Labour government would not have made much difference . |
| 14 | He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement . |
| 15 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 16 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 17 | Should you not have made these calculations and blithely continue entering more stitch patterns , you will be given no warning that you are approaching the limit of the memory . |
| 18 | ‘ You should not have made these arrangements without my approval , Adam ! ’ |
| 19 | There was no mob rule or intimidation and Mr Cranley should not have made those remarks ’ . |
| 20 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 21 | It would not have made any difference in that borough . |
| 22 | Thank goodness my vote would not have made any difference . |
| 23 | She could not have believed ten years could so alter two people . |
| 24 | Of course , I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech . |
| 25 | This is because Karnataka does not have to replace nuclear plants with alternative power sources , where the least environmentally damaging happens to be most expensive . |
| 26 | However , if a person does not want to remember names of minor characters in a novel , or does not have to remember arbitrary names to perform an experimental task , a representation of content from which that information is omitted — an incomplete mental model — will suffice . |
| 27 | Her emotional maturity should be such that she does not have to gratify personal needs at the patient 's expense . |
| 28 | While I do not dismiss the care and treatment I have received during those admissions , I did not have to spend many weeks in the ‘ old bins ’ to become aware of their shortcomings as therapeutic environments . |
| 29 | You do not have to spend much money on these items for basic hacking and general enjoyment of your horse/pony but you could spend hundreds of pounds for the best . |
| 30 | There is still much argument about what the role of this repetitive DNA may be , if any , but in any case natural selection did not have to programme each copy separately . |