Example sentences of "they have not [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 2 | They 've not said a word on the rest of the industry and in fact wo n't say it and they 've been pressed very very hard on what the future entails for the rest of the coal field . |
| 3 | They 've not got a lot of confidence in the dick department , the ones I know . ’ |
| 4 | When the p cos the press have been there I mean they ha they had their own stand , they 've not taken a photograph have they ? |
| 5 | well they 'll be crossed off they 've not paid a while so they 've got |
| 6 | In his own mind he was free to turn against them , despite the terms agreed at Montmirail , because he and they had not exchanged a kiss of peace . |
| 7 | Just when it looked as if they were starting to put something together ( they had not lost a goal in their previous four matches ) , along came Dundee to ruin it all . |
| 8 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 9 | The bagpipes were still there , they had not played a note since yesterday afternoon . |
| 10 | Friends of Rough Collie rescue had , in fact , donated £15 when the dogs were collected from the police kennels , but they had not obtained a receipt and now refused to get one on Brenda 's behalf . |
| 11 | Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes . |
| 12 | Those who were quite recently converted began to take responsibility in different areas in which they had not seen a need prior to our departure . |
| 13 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 14 | Er that is that at least three of the articles are talking to quoting different organisations er suggested that the playhouse theatre trust had been recommended to do something about their marketing er a at least two years ago if not longer ago erm certainly it 's my knowledge er they have not employed specialists to that they have not employed a specialist to that indeed since the last er appointed publicity officer left , that person that post has not been er refilled er could I ask the theatre trust why they have chosen not taken that recommendation seriously ? |
| 15 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 16 | Something they have not developed a liking for yet is prints by the German Expressionists and their successors , the artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit such as Beckmann and Grosz . |
| 17 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 18 | Amazingly they have not lost a league game since the beginning of November , and after lifting the Championship , their eyes are now on a third successive double with the Challenge Cup looming at Wembley next month . |
| 19 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 20 | But so far they have not found a cause or a cure . |
| 21 | This Government caused the recession , they continued the recession , and now they have not got a clue how to get out of the recession . |
| 22 | But it does show that they have not got a clue what has come out of their chimney stacks in the past " . |
| 23 | ‘ Since winning the European Championship they have not won a match and have not even scored a goal . ’ |
| 24 | At the lasts two A.G.M. 's of the parent body , the Hong Kong Branch has failed to comply with the constitution in that they have not submitted a Branch Report for consideration by the A.G.M. The chairman of Standing Committee has subsequently written to the Branch on several occasions reminding them of the need to submit a report and so far , has not received a reply . |