Example sentences of "have not the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 2 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 3 | and would have done so , had not the laws of nature prevented it . |
| 4 | And he knew he had not the justification of genius . |
| 5 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |
| 6 | I have not the sum to hand , and can not raise it even by loan . |
| 7 | They have not the time for speech training , and are perhaps afraid to embarrass you , and by criticising your speech to add to your shyness in discussion . |