Example sentences of "not have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tait , where Lord Clyde considered that the clerk should not have rejected the late application , his Lordship ordered the board to hold a meeting to consider the application under s.31(2) . |
| 2 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 3 | Though the shooting on the film set , if it was n't accidental , implied that Nigel Steen knew of his involvement , he still might not have realized the direct connection with Jacqui , and certainly was no nearer getting the Hereford Road address . |
| 4 | He could not have endured the clamouring siren bells that marked an alarm and that caused A area to be sealed down , passage in and out of the Citadel suspended until the malfunction was located . |
| 5 | I reminded him of my advice that he should not have renounced the Upper House so speedily . |
| 6 | Obtaining membership of the full European Tour means he will not have to undergo the punishing marathon of the PGA Qualifying School in France on November 13-18 . |
| 7 | and because the clinics were not attached to the main hospitals , there was no feedback from other disciplines in medicine , and , furthermore , the doctors working in the clinics did not have to undergo the vigorous selection procedures that were usual for hospital posts . |
| 8 | We can hypothesize that he would not have survived the rigorous processes of peer review in the British system and it is exceedingly difficult to envisage him negotiating the hazards of leading a party from the dispatch box in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 10 | This would not have pleased the old 19th century residents who took care to have the information ‘ of South Newbald ’ or ‘ of North Newbald ’ recorded on their tombstones . |
| 11 | In fact civil wars may not have endangered the Merovingian state to the extent that Gregory implies . |
| 12 | That was an odd comment to come from the right hon. Gentleman who , judged from his comments in recent days , would not have accepted the social charter . |
| 13 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 14 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 15 | But you do not have to hire the smart guy at the top , for his thinking is likely to he atypical anyway . |
| 16 | The Hammonds , intent on fraud , certainly would not have explained the proposed sale transaction to Mrs. Steed . |
| 17 | He does not have to use the detachable form provided by the trader . |
| 18 | Seasonal rains drenching uplands may have contributed to the water budget , but the annual precipitation of 2mm day simulated for high-latitude Gondwana could not have sustained the vast perennial freshwater lakes in southern Africa . |
| 19 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 20 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 21 | C. P. Snow may not have delineated the cultural divide until 1959 ; but commentators still return to Victorian England for the most potent illustrations of desiccated , materialistic science set against the life of the imagination . |
| 22 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 23 | Walking through the streets of Cristales to the school where she taught , Sister Teresa de Jesus Ramirez Vanegas may not have seen the recent threats scrawled on the village walls : ‘ Soon Cristales will be in mourning ’ … |
| 24 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 25 | It was probable he did not realize the police had the letter and he might not have guessed the true reason the typewriters had been borrowed . |
| 26 | For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software . |
| 27 | It may be concluded that without the experience of events since 1979 , this ‘ faith in the possibility of change ’ could not have become the guiding principle of the prisons . |
| 28 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 29 | The register is in the form of a file and the person seeking registration does not have to submit the original charging documents . |
| 30 | At this stage it will be feeding by itself , but bear in mind that it will not have completed the necessary course of inoculations . |