Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Hope said in the case of the first witness that his additional evidence would not have led the jury to reject the evidence of Thomas Leighton , who had corroborated the boy 's account of the attack . |
| 2 | They would not have blurred the distinction between the Union and the Community . |
| 3 | ‘ The wind was fresh at the time but should not have given the trawler any problems , ’ Mr Ellis said . |
| 4 | A penalty try would not have given the World Cup to England in itself as they still had to score again . |
| 5 | And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else . |
| 6 | The fact that she was approaching thirty can not have made the decision any easier . |
| 7 | It was clear that the sentencer would not have made the order if he had known what was now known by the court . |
| 8 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Second , I would not have believed the car was there if my son 's hi-fi had been silent , even though the car itself remained outside . |
| 10 | They should not have disputed the decision as they did , and any suggestion that this was an early ingredient in the Pakistanis ' exasperation deserves little sympathy . |
| 11 | Such powerful artefacts as the Doomstones can not have escaped the notice of the Great Enchanter , and he would certainly make every effort to get hold of them . |
| 12 | A great deal can be done using only an undifferentiated notion of abnormality , especially in conjunction with suitable ‘ diagnostic frames ’ ( see below ) ; but it will not have escaped the notice of the attentive reader that the ( a ) sentences in 17–21 above are all odd in different ways . |
| 13 | By the time they reached Letterkenny they were thirsty , so had a drink , and by the time they reached the shore road between Ray and Drumhallagh could not have pinpointed the cottage in the wood with any certainty to save their lives . |
| 14 | After Kissingen Alexander made Kavelin tutor to the heir to the throne , but he may not have realized the extent of the tutor 's radicalism . |
| 15 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 16 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 17 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 18 | He thought he need not have asked the question , and he wished he had not asked it . |
| 19 | The company might not have liked the idea very much , but rising sales figures for diesels made it just about inevitable . |
| 20 | Mozart would not have survived the treatment . |
| 21 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 22 | She was sure that he could not have survived the shot to his heart . |
| 23 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 24 | Surely it would not have cost the council a fortune to mount a modest event to mark this anniversary . |
| 25 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |
| 26 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 27 | His failure can not have pleased the training officer , who was paid a bonus for every dealer who kept his place on the dealing floor . |
| 28 | Had such a regime already existed , the creditors of the recently collapsed Land Travel would not have lost the money — about £6.6m — that they had paid in advance for their holidays . |
| 29 | This implies that people who can not remember things may not have lost the information — but may need to access it differently . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |