Example sentences of "[vb infin] not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth looked consciously unmoved , as though someone had paid her a compliment which , in modesty , she must affect not to have heard . |
| 2 | I think I would be top of any seed 's list of players they would prefer not to have in their section . ’ |
| 3 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 4 | A woman told me recently that when she said that she would prefer not to have one , her obstetrician exclaimed : ‘ Not have an enema ? |
| 5 | I 'd prefer not to have to lie about it myself Naturally , I sha n't volunteer the information . |
| 6 | You , I am sure , have a better use for your manpower and I would prefer not to have an officer sitting in the hall like a bailiff . ’ |
| 7 | The upshot is a version of what is known as preference utilitarianism , for which what counts in favour of an act is not that it promotes a kind of experience known as pleasure or prevents a kind of experience called pain , but that it provides people with what they would prefer to have and prevents their having what they would prefer not to have . |
| 8 | Sometimes the question of what a public authority ought to have done in performance of its duties will be politically or morally contentious , and the court would prefer not to have to pronounce on the issue . |
| 9 | They would prefer not to have to make a financial contribution , regardless of their ability to pay . |
| 10 | Tuathal said , ‘ i do n't suppose you mean that , but I 'd prefer not to have heard it . |
| 11 | I 'd prefer not to have any cups of coffee thrown in my face . ’ |
| 12 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 13 | And erm they have n't had Thomas does n't remember not having Harry around |
| 14 | I do n't like not having enough money and I do n't like not having enough sex and I detest the way the children dress and I detest going to your mother 's every week and I loathe the way you clench your teeth and I loathe the way you never help and I hate the way you never ask but I love you |
| 15 | I do n't like not having enough money and I do n't like not having enough sex and I detest the way the children dress and I detest going to your mother 's every week and I loathe the way you clench your teeth and I loathe the way you never help and I hate the way you never ask but I love you |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't mind not having a joint account , do you , darling ? ’ he said to her . |
| 17 | I HOPE when the Church of England Synod meets again it will decide not to have women priests in the ministry . |
| 18 | Does that man not have a Christian name ? ’ |
| 19 | Rather than risk not having the perfect shade she started buying those little sample containers and trying them out on a wall . |
| 20 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 21 | A hearer who interpreted [ 20 ] as conveying [ 21 ] would have not have captured the full meaning of the utterance : On the other hand , it is rather difficult to say what exactly it fails to capture . |
| 22 | ‘ If Lineker had stayed , Tottenham would have not have received any fee for him . ’ |
| 23 | Yes but you ca n't have not have heard it ? |
| 24 | ‘ And do try not to have any more unpleasantness . ’ |
| 25 | Intermittent intervals of moonlight would mean not having to use flashlights , when he and Larsen entered the enemy 's territory . |
| 26 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |
| 27 | a child does not lose its mother 's antibodies until about 18 months after birth , so the child of an HIV positive mother may automatically test positive for HIV antibodies until that age , but later on may prove not to have the virus |
| 28 | ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him . |
| 29 | She would pretend not to have noticed Fru Møller 's absurdities . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't regret not having much time to pamper myself in the bathroom , as the inclination is n't there . |