Example sentences of "not [verb] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is interesting to note that , the exposure and greater control of FBI activities do not appear to have placed the United States at the mercy of subversives .
2 If the conclusions derived from the analysis of the content of Merovingian gold coin and Anglo-Saxon jewellery are correct ( Hawkes , Merrick and Metcalf 1966 ) , the jewellers do not appear to have refined the gold .
3 The inequality of wealth and income was still gross , although the rise of unemployment does not appear to have worsened the position of the working classes .
4 Thomas Thurland held 1½ but Daniel Höchstetter does not appear to have held a portion .
5 The recession of more recent years does not appear to have induced a reversion back towards multi-employer bargaining .
6 I would not like to have to make a ruling over any Highsmith novel as to whether it is a crime novel or a suspense novel but , whichever it is , it shows what can be done at the frontiers of crime fiction .
7 Beto describes diagnostic units as the Ford Edsells of American corrections , although he does not claim to have invented the metaphor .
8 Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment .
9 She was not going to have to invent an excuse to ring Veronica after all .
10 It is not thought to have had a stake in the video .
11 He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world .
12 He did not remember having seen a telephone .
13 The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy .
14 If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all .
15 By contrast , certain defences are provided for the person who is not proved to have formed the intent , but whose language or conduct is likely to give rise to racial hatred .
16 I am not claiming to have considered the whole of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and its satellites .
17 To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade .
18 We have to go to Livy and to minor sources for evidence of the conflicts inside the Roman ruling class and between Romans and allies in the first half of the second century B.C. Polybius does not seem to have noticed the feuds inside Rome which accompanied what may appear to us the most uncontroversial aspect of the Roman expansion in Liguria and in Piedmont .
19 And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope .
20 The camera does not seem to have made the take-over bid for his active imagination that other people record .
21 The conflict with -ine meaning a basic group ( especially alkaloid names ) does not seem to have worried the participants , although it was commented on by Armstrong .
22 This cautionary tale does not seem to have deterred the punters , who have bought copiously in the vintages 1985 ( charming , forward wines ) , 1986 ( a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape , and thus for wines like Latour and Mouton-Rothschild ) and 1988 ( sometimes combining the charm of 1985 with the concentration of 1986 ) .
23 Nutritional improvement itself does not seem to have had a role in the effect of PEN in our study .
24 Oddly enough , the author of the epilogue does not seem to have known the name of the king who first ordered the compilation .
25 Now 25 , Jane does not pretend to have reached the point where she is back enjoying her golf .
26 Seton had hardly spoken to any since his son 's death ; Gray was never loquacious ; and Ramsay not only again felt something like guilt at deserting Berwick in its hour of need , but did not relish having to tell the Randolph sisters the terrible news and the possibility that their brother might be one of the casualties .
27 She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do .
28 We do n't want to have to do the work twice . "
29 On Silver and Knitmaster punchcard machines , you will sometimes want to knit circular rows with the punchcard in. ( if the garment is knitted using a punchcard , you do n't want to have to remove the card every time you cast on ) .
30 Perhaps they did n't want to have to share the world .
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