Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've not had that problem . |
| 2 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 3 | And you 've not had that invitation ? |
| 4 | My other self — my Chinese self — has not had such understanding . |
| 5 | She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time . |
| 6 | I 've not had one tool that 's done what I tell it to do every time . |
| 7 | ‘ But they have not had one crib about it . |
| 8 | Of persons who have not had prior hepatitis B vaccination or post exposure prophylaxis , 6% to 30% of persons who have received a needlestick exposure from an HBsAg positive individual will become infected . |
| 9 | And yet it would be unfair to deny the validity of art , that open forum in which we unceasingly sound out our emotional and intellectual understanding , merely because it has not had immediate effect on events in society . |
| 10 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 11 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 12 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 13 | ‘ They 've not had much chance , ’ she added by way of apology for herself . |
| 14 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 15 | He 's not had much sleep though , poor sod . |
| 16 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 17 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 18 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 19 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 20 | Have you not had much energy recently ? |
| 21 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 22 | I have been on to-day , so I have not had much time , I have wrote to G. Titman to-night . |
| 23 | We have not had much trouble like that since we went ex-directory . ’ |
| 24 | Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've not had much cause , either . ’ |
| 26 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 27 | But if we had not had this event we would n't have had those problems.Its the issue of New Age Travellers and illegal parties that produce what you saw last night . ’ |
| 28 | Debbie , who has a daughter with spina bifida , had not had this test and only discovered her baby 's condition when she was nearly eight months pregnant . |
| 29 | Mr Clayton had not had this evidence , and nor , claimed the Chief Executive , had he said so to the journalists . |
| 30 | In actual fact I 've got a friend and I go potholing with him , we meet , he 's a Kendall farmer , he 's a a sheep farmer and er , we meet and he says you know what I 've got a problem with on my land , not foxes dogs and walkers that have n't got them on the leads and crows at lambing time cos they peck their eyes out and things of that calibre , he says yes , I 'll tell you what I 'll bet you I 've had animals taken by foxes he , he says I probably have , he said but I 've not had this kind of unindeighted killing as . |