Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 2 | Spain would have been cowed without Wellington 's field force : Wellington could not have operated with a small army without the diversionary effects of Spanish resistance . |
| 3 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 4 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 5 | Then , at least , Israel might not have to respond in a clear-cut way . |
| 6 | I certainly would not advocate as many in rugby union , but a maximum of one per team seems perfectly reasonable , and they should not have to go through a qualifying period . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators . |
| 8 | The reader will recall how Keynes would not have disagreed with a single syllable of the above diagnosis . |
| 9 | It does seem likely , however , that after Valens jurists would not have reverted to a negative interpretation , for various interpretative principles were settled in the course of the development of the Roman law of succession , and many of them were aimed at determining the meaning of dispositions in which the testator had left an important point undetermined . |
| 10 | Such employment leaps in particular industries could not have occurred in a tight labour market with slow labour-force growth . |
| 11 | Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress . |
| 12 | As we saw earlier , the technology of the time certainly could not have coped with a live street recording , so one wonders how the company got away with that . |
| 13 | Dickens did n't have to contend with a daily Miles Kington piece , or a weekly Spitting Image , or Drop the Dead Donkey , or Week Ending . |
| 14 | He could be more personal now that he did n't have to go through a nosy newspaper office . |
| 15 | As you do n't have to go through a minor interval just go one semitone lower and |
| 16 | Mother Love Bone manage to talk quite movingly about the wasted death of Andrew Woods , Queensrÿche and Soundgarden make ten-second cameos about the Seattle scene , and Robert Plant and Aerosmith 's Joe Perry prove that you do n't have to act like a complete fuckwit when a camera 's around . |
| 17 | Mother Love Bone manage to talk quite movingly about the wasted death of Andrew Woods , Queensrÿche and Soundgarden make ten-second cameos about the Seattle scene , and Robert Plant and Aerosmith 's Joe Perry prove that you do n't have to act like a complete fuckwit when a camera 's around . |
| 18 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 19 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 20 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 21 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of holiness . |
| 22 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about a single thing . ’ |
| 25 | The good news is that he charges in 15-minute slots of £5.86 , so you do n't have to pay for a whole hour if he 's only worked five minutes of it . |
| 26 | First , he saw her looking at him through binoculars , something he would n't have put past a man-hungry shark like Sandra . |
| 27 | You do n't have to stand in a classic karate or boxing stance to kick or punch someone . |
| 28 | Well we still can but we do n't have to have like a big posh meal do we ? |
| 29 | Anyway , you could n't have coped with a sophisticated dinner party . |