Example sentences of "not have [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 2 | Do I take it Councillor that they would not have received it without your visit ? |
| 3 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 4 | Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small . |
| 5 | Agreement on this suggestion would bring the meeting to a close , and most of those present would not have to do anything at all about the wretched book . |
| 6 | As it happened , Mr Kim did not have to do anything about this affair . |
| 7 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 8 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 9 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 10 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 11 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 12 | It seemed they could have everything merely because they were boys , they would not have to sacrifice anything for anything else . |
| 13 | At the Opera de la Bastille they do not have to veil themselves in shame because they are resonant and reasonable : that is the message . |
| 14 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 15 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 16 | Nuclear explosives might not have killed anyone since Nagasaki in 1945 , but the use of nuclear fuel in a civil reactor had . |
| 17 | ‘ Or perhaps I should not have asked you at all . ’ |
| 18 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 19 | But you do not have to confine yourself to just one murder . |
| 20 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 21 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 22 | ‘ He might not have noticed it in coffee . ’ |
| 23 | In such circumstances agents do not have to concern themselves with whether an unexpectedly high price in period t is due to a relative or aggregate demand shock . |
| 24 | I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’ |
| 25 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 26 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 27 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 28 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 29 | This came out with more bravado than Sally-Anne really felt , and had she seen him more clearly before she intervened she might not have said anything at all . |
| 30 | Bank CDs are negotiable pieces of paper ; you do not have to hold them to maturity ; you can sell them instead . |