Example sentences of "[noun] has not [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the user has not accessed a particular field type during the current session , the user must enter the required value and press TAB . |
| 2 | ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 3 | DEC has not had a top sales executive since John Shields left the company in 1990 to take over the helm at doomed Prime Computer Inc . |
| 4 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 5 | His Department has not allocated a single penny to that programme for 1992-93 . |
| 6 | If an employee has not found a permanent home in the new location at the time of the transfer , it is usual for the employer to pay the costs of a hotel stay and travel expenses home at week-ends . |
| 7 | He confessed that the model he had in mind was Pascal 's letters , but alas his pamphlet has not achieved a similar immortality . |
| 8 | And although Scotland has not had a wide reaching policy of moving psychiatric patients out of hospitals , community care for mentally ill people has advanced spontaneously . |
| 9 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
| 10 | The common law has not proved a great source of procedural protection for aliens . |
| 11 | Thankfully this fate has not befallen a splendid exponent of rabbinical humour , Rabbi Lionel Blue . |
| 12 | Today 's guardians of the Abbey are just thankful the south transept has n't suffered a similar fate . |
| 13 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 14 | Phil has n't addressed a civil word to us in weeks . |
| 15 | Up to now , the patch of land off Whessoe Road has n't had a great deal going for it . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the results were highly controversial and Sue Elliott , the official in charge of children 's television at Britain 's Independent Television Commission watchdog , says : ‘ Extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic has not established a clear link between watching violent television and violent behaviour . ’ |
| 17 | My husband has n't got a fixed address and he is probably hiding . |
| 18 | Marxist literary criticism has not produced a new theory in over twenty years . |
| 19 | ‘ Philip has n't written a real play for four years , ’ Maud said , looking round for the waiter . |
| 20 | It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses . |
| 21 | VS Naipaul has not created a credible woman character , which is a fairly major fault . |
| 22 | Despite — some would say because of — the cosy consensus which had been created by a powerful nuclear lobby with tacit political support , the development of nuclear power in Britain has not followed a smooth path . |
| 23 | In Skipton , North Yorkshire , The Gargrave Park rehabilitation centre has not had a full referral since 1 April , leaving five of its seven beds empty . |
| 24 | This year , however , The Fellow has not enjoyed a triumphal procession through his races and returns to Kempton with something to prove . |
| 25 | Congress has not become a parliamentary poodle or a mere captive of the executive branch ; it remains an imposing and fractious body , fully capable of defending its position and thwarting presidential ambitions . |
| 26 | In the winding it 's just their lot has n't changed a great deal . |
| 27 | The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective . |
| 28 | I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe . |
| 29 | But many observers , considering the harsh fact that Cram has not won a major championship medal since the 1986 European Championships , believe the Jarrow ace is too old and too injury-prone to make the grade in the 5,000m . |
| 30 | But it is not just that access to the increased educational facilities is conditioned by social background , even where people achieve educational mobility , the economic structure has not provided a corresponding increase in jobs to match that mobility in occupational terms . |