Example sentences of "[verb] not have much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Paribas 's rival Banque Indosuez won the insurance company , Victoire , analysts believe that Paribas did not have much choice but to look for a suitable target in the insurance field . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics . |
| 3 | In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property . |
| 4 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 5 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 6 | I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’ |
| 7 | Convents of mere women probably did not have much access to precious books in those days before printing . |
| 8 | Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances . |
| 9 | But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper . |
| 10 | The cloze scores for the two conditions , normal and scrambled , hardly differed at all ( 49 per cent for the normal ; 46 per cent for the scrambled ) , which suggested that the reordering did not have much effect . |
| 11 | The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 . |
| 12 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 13 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 14 | He realized Oliver did not have much experience of the world . |
| 15 | The war in Abyssinia did not have much effect on the people of Fontanellato . |
| 16 | ( The Shah at this time did not have much authority ) . |
| 17 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 18 | I listened with interest to the hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) when he said that the Labour party did not have much interest in or seek to represent the Monktonhall miners . |
| 19 | I did promise not to mention David Nieman 's accident that day ; but needless to say a pigeon did not have much respect for a dinner suit . |
| 20 | She did not have much baggage with her , as most of her belongings , accumulated in her two years ' stay in New York , had been sent ahead by sea . |
| 21 | This time no expression came over their faces and he knew they did not have much time to live . |
| 22 | Moreover , they are often flown by early solo pilots who do not have much experience of flying them or of solo aerotowing . |
| 23 | For those who do not have much real competence in other languages , there is the possibility of coming to terms with poems in the older , more remote forms of English . |
| 24 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 25 | Land Rovers do not self centre very much because in common with most beam axled four wheel drive vehicles they do not have much of a caster angle on the front axle . |
| 26 | People feel that they do not have much of a life , because in their terms , their lives seem unfulfilling and pointless . |
| 27 | Electrons may have enough thermal energy to jump between states in adjacent discs at ambient temperature , but this can be practically impossible at very low temperatures ( where the electrons do not have much energy ) in a very thin layer ( where the separation is large ) . |
| 28 | If you do not have much dressmaking ability but still want to make this type of use of the woven material produced by your knitting machine , you could well turn to the diagrams that most machine knitting patterns supply . |
| 29 | ’ John made it clear enough that he was thinking of the Roman curia : ‘ In our everyday ministry we often have to listen , greatly to our sorrow , to those … who do not have much discretion or balance ’ . |
| 30 | The verdicts are implicitly defining what is appropriate behaviour for women and suggesting that they do not have much of a safeguard if they stray into areas regarded as ‘ male territory ’ whether it be a barracks room or a street late at night . |