Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 3 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 4 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 5 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 6 | This time I do not have to lean against a wall . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 8 | In the past , your affection would not have ended in a hug and the giving of warmth to each other . |
| 9 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 10 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 11 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 12 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 13 | The class teacher 's general class management and discipline must be good so that the support teacher does not have to work in an atmosphere of excessive noise , nor for that matter in one of silence . |
| 14 | However the homoeopathic physician will also administer a remedy , as well as giving a prescription for the antibiotic , with instructions that should the remedy not have worked within an hour or two , the antibiotic should be obtained . |
| 15 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 16 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 17 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
| 18 | So they do n't have to go to an advertising agency or a graphics designer to have it all drawn up we 'll do that for them . |
| 19 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 20 | No , it 's just that erm he feels comfortable and does n't have to put on a show |
| 21 | The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list . |
| 22 | You do n't have to talk like a baby ! |
| 23 | We will review the decision on an annual basis as our video list grows — maybe producing a series of loop tapes each one covering a particular sector of the market so that customers interested in adult/business English videos do n't have to sit through a section on ‘ watch with mother ’ levels . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , one thing 's for sure , ’ William 's grandad said , ‘ he ca n't have escaped along a railway line with a horse and cart , not even the po-lice are going to believe that . ’ |
| 25 | Our relationship does n't have to do with a cause , Father Tom ; it 's based on fear and guilt and power — like all true relationships . |
| 26 | so he said you do n't have to move on a Friday cos Mike said well do we have to move Friday ? |
| 27 | ‘ Or he would n't have agreed to a truce over Christmas . ’ |
| 28 | Would n't have happened with a postcode would it ? |
| 29 | You do n't have to start at a attitude , but yeah , if you 're watching for them , and you start to see signals , you need to be aware of these , because that 's really the situation , is n't it , that 's why I think you to be aware of influence . |
| 30 | You do n't have to play for a fortnight , do you ? |