Example sentences of "not [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAUSD will remove all teachers not planning to further their education along with teachers who have not proven to have a passionate concern for the students . |
| 2 | Miquel Tàpies does not want to have a hectic turnover of exhibitions , but a twin programme of major retrospectives and seminars which engender debate . |
| 3 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 4 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 5 | Not only am I not prepared to have a semi-detached marriage , but I 'm convinced that if you really cared for me you would have no hesitation about placing my interests first , ’ had been his parting shot as he had left the apartment , slamming the front door loudly behind him . |
| 6 | In front of the all-seeing eye of the TV camera , he did not appear to have a firm grasp of America 's problems or a clear understanding of where he wanted to go . |
| 7 | Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home . |
| 8 | Middlesbrough are in with a fine chance of that second automatic promotion spot , especially as they do not appear to have a difficult run-in . |
| 9 | The sentence does not appear to have a semantic controller ; that is to say , there is no evidence of privileged status for either subject or predicate in respect of semantic relations between sentences . |
| 10 | However , many women in this position do not like having a feminine title . |
| 11 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 13 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 14 | Is there one senior figure in British industry and commerce who really believes that we are not bound to have a single currency in the end ? |
| 15 | Family counselling does not have to have a historical basis . |
| 16 | Firms do not have to have a written relocation policy ; although there are obvious advantages if they do . |
| 17 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 18 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They both might be fit for Saturday and , even though they will not have had a reserve team match , they could well come straight back into the squad , ’ he added . |
| 20 | Thus , prices on Simex may not have had a measurable effect on the index . |
| 21 | However , computer simulations using state-of-the-art general atmospheric circulation models undertaken in Britain , Canada , Germany and the United States all suggest the fires will have added only 2–5 per cent to world emissions of carbon dioxide in 1991 and that this increase will not have had a significant influence on world climate change . |
| 22 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 23 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 24 | But just as man 's dates were being pushed back , there came an unhappy interaction between geology and physics , again two sciences which had not seemed to have a common frontier . |
| 25 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 26 | He is not known to have a wide circle of friends , in fact people tend to steer clear of him . |
| 27 | A good telephone voice does not mean having a middle class or ‘ posh ’ accent — it means developing a friendly , happy and interesting tone , and adjusting the pitch of your voice to suit the situation . |
| 28 | Why not fix to have a light lunch here one day if ever in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 30 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |