Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century .
2 In the West Indies , they had no proper education and so did n't have the qualifications to get good jobs .
3 I 'm not ! she wanted to shout , but suddenly did n't have the breath .
4 It might be that the individual does not see the value of climbing a mountain ; or perhaps does not have the confidence to set about the task .
5 ( we do just do n't have the reputation for it ) .
6 As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures .
7 For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country .
8 We just do not have the information to go on . ’
9 The masses just do not have the information or expertise to interpret social problems , let alone to propose solutions for them .
10 You 've got plenty of time you just do n't have the inclination .
11 But I just do n't have the heart to explore these ideas ’ , says Gibson .
12 Maybe Gloucester just do n't have the spending power to keep them at Kingsholm .
13 It could be that the recession is biting , and that people just do n't have the kind of money to spend on records that they used to .
14 I do n't want to survive only on donations , but we just do n't have the resources to buy much .
15 Human soldiers just do n't have the brute ferocity of Orcs or the haughty self-confidence of Elves .
16 And I just do n't have the support I had hoped for — from you , perhaps , yes .
17 You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’
18 You just do n't have the people jumping onstage going , F**k Margaret Thatcher , anymore , but you can still make a point . ’
19 ‘ I 'd love to but I 'm afraid I just do n't have the time .
20 Myth no. 2 : exercising takes too much time Do you have a hectic timetable and feel you just do n't have the time to exercise ?
21 You do n't have to engage with questions of gender stereotyping , you just do n't have the presenter there at all !
22 it 's just the thought of I 'd be , I just do n't have the confidence .
23 In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials .
24 I just did n't have the enthusiasm .
25 He just did n't have the self-discipline to apply it …
26 He broke off , and looked suddenly so exhausted and worn that Leith just did n't have the heart to tell him what an offensive brute his cousin had been .
27 PUB regulars admitted today : ‘ We just did n't have the heart to burn Johnny the Guy . ’
28 I think you find it with most West Indian parents … it was n't so much lack of enthusiasm , they just did n't have the time .
29 It struck me as wonderful stuff , so I got in touch and tried to get them to do the music for Doctor Who , but they just did n't have the time .
30 Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production .
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