Example sentences of "not [vb infin] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ordered the review , despite telling MPs yesterday : ‘ If officials had found out any information about Mr Clinton it would not have been given out . ’ |
| 2 | There was a deep , thick blood from the old oaks , still trickling slowly out here and there , as if the Trees might not have been cut down so very long since , or — and this was much worse — as if there were still vestiges of life in them . |
| 3 | This , said the Rev. Tolming , even when the children were so young that they should not have been sent out , and also when the nature of their health rendered it dangerous . |
| 4 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 5 | FIL files referenced are available to LIFESPAN RDBI. e.g. It may be that the LIFESPAN process may not have been shut down . |
| 6 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 7 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 8 | It is the simplest and most obvious layout , but there are , of course , other patterns — such as the radial pattern of so many modern housing estates — and it is odd that these others should not have been tried out until within our own time . |
| 9 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 10 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 11 | I welcome the view of the hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) that Le Pen — a person whose only claim to fame is the manner in which in France he has agitated to poison race relations and incite hatred — is completely unwelcome in Britain and should not have been allowed in . |
| 12 | He should not have been allowed out under any circumstances . |