Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 3 | In the event of Christian 's death he would not only become the outright owner of Handley Farm , but Christian intended leaving him sufficient money to ensure he did not have to part with the farm in the foreseeable future . |
| 4 | It is always the most convenient for my guests in that they do not have to drive in the dark , and they can have a much more leisurely lunch , without worrying about the time , as they would in the evening over dinner . |
| 5 | Perhaps the argumentative Balbindor had been correct in saying I should not have drunk from the waterfall springing from the Other Side . |
| 6 | The additional part , which does not have to do with the connections stated by independent conditionals , is perhaps particularly necessary in connection with our conviction about the explanatoriness of the causal items . |
| 7 | He realises that he does not have to conform to the laws which have been set down by his community . |
| 8 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 9 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 10 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 11 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 12 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 13 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 14 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 15 | We do not have to rely on the verse which embarrasses Yates ( ‘ the Spirit had not yet been given , because Jesus was not yet glorified , ’ John 7:39 ) for this , though that is unambiguous enough . |
| 16 | Now we did not have to sit on the edge of the bed — a much wider bed — because there were two chairs , and I had my own shower and facilities for making coffee and snacks . |
| 17 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 18 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 19 | Many species would not have survived without the weapon of the pre-emptive strike . |
| 20 | Israel could not have survived in the desert without God 's miraculous provision . |
| 21 | You may not have heard of the journalist or author concerned but that does not mean that they are not engaged on a bona fide testing programme or working on a first-class magazine feature . |
| 22 | As to Mrs. Leapor 's dramatic writings , it would not be overrating their merit to say that much worse plays have succeeded on the stage : yet it is probable her Unhappy Father would not have pleased in the acting . |
| 23 | He hoped he would not have to go during the night . |
| 24 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 25 | This time I do not have to lean against a wall . |
| 26 | This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia . |
| 27 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 28 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 29 | There 's a lot of people who er do n't , who would not have gone to the bother of going into the shop and buying a one pound or two pound or four pound |
| 30 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |