Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 6 | This time I do not have to lean against a wall . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was lonely , I would not have gone to a teacher and said so — he would have told me to pull myself together . |
| 8 | In the past , your affection would not have ended in a hug and the giving of warmth to each other . |
| 9 | I would have behaved in the same manner , but I would not have apologised to a man who had just given such a small sentence for the criminal act of killing two innocent victims . |
| 10 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 11 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 12 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 13 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 14 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |