Example sentences of "[not/n't] have a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For this reason the House of Lords held that in certain cases an applicant for a declaration or an injunction should not have a choice of procedure : in certain cases it would be and ‘ abuse of the process of the court ’ for an applicant seeking a declaration or an injunction to proceed otherwise than by way of an AJR under Ord. 53 .
2 It is also necessary , in areas where student members are small , to select experts who are seen to be neutral and do not have a conflict of interest with the college .
3 Mergers between these firms have had the effect of reducing the number of accountants who do not have a conflict of interest , simply because there are fewer firms .
4 Mr Lang has decided that Yorkhill and the city 's Southern General Hospital do not have a scale of teaching and research to justify such representation .
5 But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays .
6 Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number .
7 It may sometimes be necessary or desirable in certain contexts to specify plurality or duality in languages which do not normally specify such information because they do not have a category of number or a dual form .
8 When one of those crisp , sunny days does arrive , make absolutely sure that control surfaces or the tail cone of taildraggers do not have a mass of ice concealed within them .
9 I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then
10 Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong .
11 The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it .
12 Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ .
13 The core will need to recognise that it does not have a monopoly of expertise and knowledge .
14 For all their probable weaknesses , however , the civil service , business and the unions do not have a monopoly of conservatism and resistance to change .
15 Men did not have a monopoly of travel , or of disguise .
16 Simply because the Crown does not have a right of appeal against sentence .
17 Currently a solicitor does not have a right of audience ; only members of the Bar may appear before the court , although , again , reference should be made to the provisions of the Court and Legal Services Act 1990 .
18 If innkeepers did not have a right of sale they would be left with the property of guests which they could not realise in order to satisfy the debt .
19 In our country , there are many religious sects , such as the Evangelists and the Jehovah 's Witnesses , who do not have a policy of commitment to the poor and oppose trade union organization .
20 Unfortunately , it does not have a lot of software support , and the price — about £750 — puts it beyond most people 's reach .
21 If a group does not have a lot of money , it may instead call upon public sympathy to sustain its views in the policy-making process .
22 We do not have a lot of time left in which to act …
23 The manager , whatever style of approach is adopted by outsiders who seek a collegial response , does not have an immediacy of contact with colleagues at the first , important stage when , after the preliminary reading of basic documents , thoughts are being formed about interpretation and response .
24 This , however , is not at all uncommon when regressing someone to such an early age , for babies do not have an awareness of time in the same way that adults do .
25 A more sophisticated form of level two is the coalition , where partners work together for some common purpose but do not have an identity of interest or concern and where one or other of the partners may withdraw leaving the other partner(s) to continue .
26 Britain is one of the few democracies that still does n't have a freedom of information act .
27 We simply have to be sensible and professional , and we wo n't have a speck of trouble . ’
28 Of teachers , four examples , at random , covered approachability , humour and sensitivity ( SED 1989:8 ) : If you do n't have a sense of humour and ca n't laugh with the weans , you 'd crack up more easily .
29 For , of course , he would deny everything to the police , and , though she knew she was right , she did n't have a shred of evidence .
30 If you do , I 'll forget every agreement we ever had , and I 'll fight you with everything I 've got , so that by the end you wo n't have a shred of reputation left — ’
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