Example sentences of "do not have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past .
2 In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him .
3 It did not have to have a name .
4 Darlington appeal co-ordinator Michelle Le-Neveu said donations did not have to cost a lot but should be high in nutrition like tinned fish or meat .
5 Shopping is a pleasure when you live alone because you do not have to do a bulk-shop every weekend as families do .
6 The ability of soil to support plant life is an extraordinarily involved and technically complicated science , and although you do not have to become a scientist in order to grow roses well , you do need to use a lot of judgement in all sorts of situations .
7 You do not have to become a psychologist in the academic sense .
8 On the other hand , defensive circulars do not have to comply with the Code 's information and content requirements and do not have to contain a responsibility statement which gives the target company 's board greater latitude ( although , of course , it should avoid negligent or misleading statements and defamatory remarks and copies of its circulars must be lodged with the Panel ) .
9 Where there is no such interrelation , as where the landlord does not have to serve a notice in order to exercise his right to review the rent , the mere existence of a tenant 's break-clause will not lead the court to impose time limits on the landlord ( Woodhouse ( Edwin ) Trustee Co Ltd v Sheffield Brick Co plc ( 1983 ) 270 EG 548 ) .
10 The miracle of anorexia is that this wish can be fulfilled : one does not have to grow up ; one does not have to become a woman , even in the biological sense ; one can reject all foreign substances , for which food is a metaphor , and subject them to one 's will .
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