Example sentences of "[not/n't] have a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it would be fair to say that they do not have a long-term answer to the question : ‘ What is the appropriate level of funding ? ’ , except that of adding on an amount , based on the estimated shortfall , to existing expenditure . |
| 2 | The former does not have a full-time commitment to the classroom and so has no occasion to engage in operational activities and empirical evaluation as intrinsic to the pedagogic process . |
| 3 | As all notes are ( in theory ) the same in melodic strength , and none predominates over the others , the notes do not have a decisive tendency to ‘ go somewhere ’ . |
| 4 | Pest Control Division did not have a great start to 1991 . |
| 5 | The right hon. Member for Worcester has said in characteristically self-deprecating phrases that he does not have a great desire to be remembered but I am sure that , given his record , he will take it as an accolade to be thought of , in H. L. Mencken 's happy phrase , as a politician who could sit on the fence and have both ears to the ground at the same time . |
| 6 | ‘ Church growth means all that is involved in bringing men and women who do not have a personal relationship to Jesus Christ into fellowship with him and into responsible church membership ’ ( Wagner 1976:12 ) . |
| 7 | While the group did not have a large commitment to it , there had to be a big question-mark over whether to continue it . |
| 8 | Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class . |
| 9 | This may cause a problem to the offeror if it does not have a sufficient liability to mainstream corporation tax against which to offset the ACT . |
| 10 | She feels SSDs which have not applied before , or do not have a clear commitment to HIV/AIDS , will ‘ have their work cut out for them ’ . |
| 11 | People who ‘ expect ’ older people to have worsening health or to ‘ decline ’ in their faculties , may not have a positive approach to various ways of coping with physical and mental changes . |
| 12 | You do n't have a copper pfennig to your name ! |
| 13 | It 's a warning that we do n't have a divine right to the British Grand Prix , though I 've got to be confident about Silverstone . ’ |
| 14 | I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption . |
| 15 | ‘ But he would n't have a significant force to actually do anything . |