Example sentences of "[verb] not have [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only recall one occasion when he expressed a quiet boast ; he took delight in telling me that he did not have one paper qualification to his name . |
| 2 | The patient was in good health and did not have peptic ulcer disease . |
| 3 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 4 | Unlike France , Wales did not have any world class performers able to change the pattern of the game single-handedly , and were consequently unable to utilise the unexpectedly large amount of possession they won . |
| 5 | For lenders there is clearly a more desirable proposition in a public house that has a higher beverages or ‘ wet ’ side than a ‘ dry ’ side , because if someone wants to purchase a pub with a high ‘ dry ’ side , and they do not have much catering experience , then their turnover could diminish rapidly . |
| 6 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 7 | If you do not have much dressmaking ability but still want to make this type of use of the woven material produced by your knitting machine , you could well turn to the diagrams that most machine knitting patterns supply . |
| 8 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 9 | If you are satisfied that you have spirited away all possible clutter and still do not have adequate preparation space you could cover a sink with a portable chopping board , or turn a drawer into an extra work surface by fitting runners to a block of wood the same width as the drawer , so that it will glide in and out of the unit , resting on the top of the drawer when it is pulled out . |
| 10 | A US government decision to ban its employees from using hotels which do not have adequate fire protection by 1996 could have a knock-on effect in Britain . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , we do not have any reason merit awards as such . |
| 12 | On going to sleep , all normal people start with slow wave sleep , and do not have any REM sleep until at least forty-five minutes have elapsed . |
| 13 | Note that the child does not have automatic party status when an application is made for a s8 order except in the circumstances specified in ( iii ) and ( iv ) above although he can apply for party status as explained below . |
| 14 | Compressed air does not have sufficient energy density for useful range : a flywheel would have to rotate at too high a speed for safety to ensure adequate range ; storing heat energy is limited by the temperature of the working fluid and by losses due to conduction . |