Example sentences of "[not/n't] had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 2 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 3 | In the opening pages of the book I referred to the pragmademic gap that seems to exist between pragmatists who have not had the benefit of a formal systems education , but might wish to make use of soft systems ideas , and those who have developed and applied these ideas at a more academic level . |
| 4 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 5 | Now he ( the Secretary ) may have considered it to be more of a ‘ bone headed ’ idea , but I would n't know because to date ( 18.09.91 ) I have not had the benefit of an acknowledgement . |
| 6 | The court takes the view that it has not had the benefit of seeing the witnesses , hearing their evidence and forming opinions as to the weight to be attached to it . |
| 7 | I 've not had the benefit of walking round the grounds of Skelton Hall . |
| 8 | No-one should begrudge the win because , as holder of the cup , Western have not had the benefit of actually holding it ! |
| 9 | Of course , it 's quite right , and it 's it 's in a sense maybe reasonable to oppose a budget , but in the past , I think it 's been erm , one of the strengths of the labour group , when in opposition to put alternative budgets in for say , yes , we take a view that 's different to the budget that 's before us , but so far with two conservative speakers , we 've not had the benefit of knowing which items , which levels of of spending within this policy committee , be it the Chief Exec . |
| 10 | ‘ Even today , after all this time , she has not had the guts to say sorry to us , ’ said Teresa 's father Stephen Power , 57 . |
| 11 | Vast benefactions brought these men knighthoods or baronetcies or honorary degrees from universities they had endowed but not had the chance to attend . |
| 12 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 13 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 14 | They have simply not had the chance at school to demonstrate whether or not they are actually able to go on with mathematics . |
| 15 | Oslin Williams , who was severely burned last year in a fire which killed his father at their caravan home , would have died from asphyxiation due to scarring of his windpipe if he had not had the operation , surgeons said . |
| 16 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 17 | Mary had lost both parents , her husband and two children within the space of ten years , and had not had the opportunity to acknowledge any of the effect this had on her . |
| 18 | When we mix up strange horses in this way , it is not surprising that some should display aggression , as the horses have not had the opportunity to work out their social positions in relation to each other . |
| 19 | Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ . |
| 20 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 21 | When something goes wrong , the slogan ‘ Have machine , will travel ’ has a depressing ring of truth , especially disastrous in the winter season , since it is no good excavating a channel in midwinter if the ecologists working with the engineers on a scheme have not had the opportunity during the previous summer growing season to identify the existing aquatic habitat affected . |
| 22 | Ironically the Second World War enabled many people who had not had the opportunity to travel to see something of other countries . |
| 23 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 24 | And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’ |
| 25 | The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination . |
| 26 | In addition , I have not had the opportunity to read ’ Erskine May ’ during the debate , as I was listening attentively to contributors . |
| 27 | This , of course , may be the proverbial ‘ chicken and the egg situation ’ , in that historians in this country have not had the opportunity to use such electronic text sources , and have therefore failed to address the issues involved . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 29 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 30 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |