Example sentences of "not have a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he not had a bowl of water in his cell , he too , would have succumbed before his rescuers found him . |
| 2 | and it 's everything just to stop you getting at what , well get it then yeah , I 've , I do n't mind some of it , I 've not had a bit of marzipan for I do n't mind these erm almond slices , I quite like them , but I think it must be the texture of the marzipan |
| 3 | Tell her I 'll starve to death , cos I 've not had a bit of cake ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not had a cup of tea all night , ’ she says . |
| 5 | I have not had a cup of tea since I came here , as the coffee is so cheap and good . |
| 6 | For this reason the House of Lords held that in certain cases an applicant for a declaration or an injunction should not have a choice of procedure : in certain cases it would be and ‘ abuse of the process of the court ’ for an applicant seeking a declaration or an injunction to proceed otherwise than by way of an AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 7 | It is also necessary , in areas where student members are small , to select experts who are seen to be neutral and do not have a conflict of interest with the college . |
| 8 | Mergers between these firms have had the effect of reducing the number of accountants who do not have a conflict of interest , simply because there are fewer firms . |
| 9 | Mr Lang has decided that Yorkhill and the city 's Southern General Hospital do not have a scale of teaching and research to justify such representation . |
| 10 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 11 | Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number . |
| 12 | It may sometimes be necessary or desirable in certain contexts to specify plurality or duality in languages which do not normally specify such information because they do not have a category of number or a dual form . |
| 13 | When one of those crisp , sunny days does arrive , make absolutely sure that control surfaces or the tail cone of taildraggers do not have a mass of ice concealed within them . |
| 14 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 15 | Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong . |
| 16 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 17 | Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ . |
| 18 | The core will need to recognise that it does not have a monopoly of expertise and knowledge . |
| 19 | For all their probable weaknesses , however , the civil service , business and the unions do not have a monopoly of conservatism and resistance to change . |
| 20 | Men did not have a monopoly of travel , or of disguise . |
| 21 | Simply because the Crown does not have a right of appeal against sentence . |
| 22 | Currently a solicitor does not have a right of audience ; only members of the Bar may appear before the court , although , again , reference should be made to the provisions of the Court and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 23 | If innkeepers did not have a right of sale they would be left with the property of guests which they could not realise in order to satisfy the debt . |
| 24 | In our country , there are many religious sects , such as the Evangelists and the Jehovah 's Witnesses , who do not have a policy of commitment to the poor and oppose trade union organization . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , it does not have a lot of software support , and the price — about £750 — puts it beyond most people 's reach . |
| 26 | If a group does not have a lot of money , it may instead call upon public sympathy to sustain its views in the policy-making process . |
| 27 | We do not have a lot of time left in which to act … |
| 28 | She regularly boasted about not having a sense of humour . |
| 29 | Being accused of not having a sense of humour is a terrible insult . ’ |
| 30 | So of course the poor Welshman with not having a sense of humour booked him , and poor Ben came back with a twenty-pound fine . |