Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [adv] have the " in BNC.

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1 I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April .
2 ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask .
3 I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life .
4 Phone back within twenty-four hours to report progress even if you do not yet have the answer .
5 She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it .
6 If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework .
7 I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated .
8 In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition .
9 Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals .
10 It remains true , however , that we do not now have the means to deploy this approach wholeheartedly , so that anyone who insists on its universal applicability must be taken , at least for the moment , to be committing an act of faith .
11 We do not all have the same ministries .
12 We do not all have the same function within the body of Christ .
13 They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies .
14 It should be emphasised that we are providing a service complementary to that of merchant banks ; they do not normally have the resources to do it themselves .
15 My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole .
16 As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner .
17 By the law of the land , not only does he possess none of it , he does not even have the right to own any of it .
18 In general , a potential X does not have all the rights of an X. Prince Charles is a potential King of England , but he does not now have the rights of a king .
19 And because it was never colonised by a European power , it does not even have the conscience of a ‘ mother country ’ to turn to .
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