Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [not/n't] have " in BNC.

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1 The message of de Gaulle the politician was that national renewal did not have to succeed national disaster ; it could be achieved through a reform in the organization of the French state .
2 And Labour did not have a monopoly of CND-leaning members or policies .
3 At Friends of the Earth , Jonathan Porritt similarly fought a long and largely successful battle to demonstrate that efficiency and negotiation with the opposition do n't have to mean sell-out .
4 We all welcome his precision in noting the fact that the Opposition do not have a proper policy .
5 Big Flame did n't have permanent leaders , but it did have superstars .
6 Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news .
7 47% of families asking for help from the Family Welfare Association did not have enough money left to feed themselves .
8 Our study did not have these important advantages .
9 held that no award would be made as defender did not have means and resources to make the payment as there was not a contract of insurance in his favour .
10 After receiving my version of the working drawing , Mr. phoned to say that the drawing did not have sufficient detail , and that another Mr. from the Glasgow office would be in touch to ask for a clarified drawing .
11 Most words ending — ead do not have the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation for ea .
12 Dot did n't have a milk-mug but the teacher lent her one .
13 In each case it had in effect been ruled that Gen Robertson 's order of 14 May would apply , and that 5 Corps could continue with arrangements already entered into hand over both Cossacks and Yugoslavs but only in each case , so lob as force did not have to be used .
14 Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day .
15 Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive .
16 A majority of the United Kingdom workforce decided against strike action and the mood of the Glasgow workers was so clear yesterday that a vote did not have to be taken .
17 Last night 's programme did not have an auspicious start .
18 A letter before action did not have the desired effect , and proceedings to recover the debt were started in the county court .
19 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 .
20 In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality .
21 Bolshevik sources reveal that about half the population of the guberniia did not have enough to eat by then , and the position was no better by spring of 1922 .
22 For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War .
23 Simon Crawshaw , director of the year-old NCIS , said organised crime did not have the highly-visible impact of robbery , burglary or street violence .
24 St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving .
25 Not infrequently he wished his penis did n't have to take the entire responsibility for the success or failure of the operation .
26 Manager Sue Frost said the club did not have the strength in depth to support the firsts , seconds and As , who were relegated from the East Super League .
27 Further , the defendant does not have the option of minimising the cost by deciding not to go ahead with the case !
28 The reason for this is that the recipient does not have to pay any tax on the dividends received and , in addition , may pay such franked investment income to its own shareholders without paying ACT ( such shareholders will nevertheless receive the dividends with the usual basic rate tax credit ) .
29 The cut does n't have to be straight — you can do it freehand , as long as it remains within the area to be covered by the border .
30 The lingering conventional truths — that the Czech economy would be strong enough to cushion dissent , that the opposition does not have a sufficiently coherent voice — already look thin .
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