Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to have " in BNC.

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1 Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction .
2 It was not enough to have modern weapons and ‘ the best of young Irishmen ’ if the people did not understand the nature of the freedom for which they were fighting and that
3 It was not enough to have the Commander-in-Chief 's approval to set up his unit .
4 It is not enough to have a wish to improve the quality of your reports , price lists etc .
5 For Lewis it was not enough to have the Bible : you had to learn how to read it .
6 The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation .
7 An American poet , Carolyn Kizer , says that in the arts ‘ it is not enough to have just great personalities .
8 It is not enough to have only one of these criteria in common .
9 Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’
10 That it was not enough to have a health care system that treated the symptoms , it had to tackle the root cause of the problem .
11 It is not enough to have relationships with only one or two other people who are very close .
12 Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants .
13 All that was fine and good , but in the end it 's not enough to have someone who makes the trains run on time .
14 Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself .
15 It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name .
16 It is not enough to have a political policy , and it is not enough to have a defence policy just to give it a name .
17 It is not enough to have a new idea ; the discoverer has to know the field within which the new idea is to be applied , so that he can evaluate its significance , and test the worth of the new insight .
18 But the promotions appear not only to have brought resentment among officers who were passed over but also failed to overcome unrest at hardship caused by US sanctions .
19 In order to survive the jungle and live to tell the tale it is important not only to have good companions , but also to have the best available equipment .
20 Former general Fidel Ramos , elected president last year , seems not only to have won over former coup plotters but also to show deregulatory promise .
21 Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe .
22 If the project is to be judged a success in the long term , it must be seen not only to have engaged children and staff in project schools in new ways of perceiving and using libraries , but also to have created a viable and dynamic framework for the further development and dissemination of good practice .
23 It is vital that our children have the best possible education to allow them not only to have the best possible standard of life and maximise their opportunities , but for the benefit of Britain , so that we can compete in the world in trade and industry .
24 ‘ In a year which has seen more investment than ever in drama on S4C , it is wonderful not only to have audience acclaim in Wales but critical acclaim of professional peers in the RTS. ’ he said .
25 It then supplements the pre-emption thesis by showing that we should be concerned not merely to have the proper attitude to those in authority over us , but also to those in authority over others .
26 To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it .
27 In the Inca state this process of regression seems not merely to have profoundly compromised the superego and to have replaced it with the person of the Inca and his fellow Children of the Sun , but also to have attacked the ego in general and to have reduced the Indians to an apathetic , dependent and passive state in which the higher ego-functions of decision-making , initiative , and individuality were markedly reduced .
28 You are expected not just to have one by you , but to answer it or , if you can not ( because you are ‘ in a meeting ’ ) , then to have a secretary to take messages and make sure that calls are returned .
29 Not just to have it , like a father — no , he wants to be a mother , to bring the child out of his mouth , spit out a little Manjiku , think of that !
30 I like being in a war and I like being there because it 's a great adventure for me , but my duty is to be there for a reason , not just to have a bloody good time …
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