Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not had such dreams since I was a boy . ’ |
| 2 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 3 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 4 | The stories of Manjiku she had heard on the island , when she was herself a girl , had not had happy endings : Manjiku continued to raid the inland waters for women , his hunger was not to be appeased , his need to have babies of his own still raged . |
| 5 | Everybody says that 's what 's going to happen , but erm when it 's been done in the past I 've not had any figures produced that indicate that the service provision has had to fall off because of increased charges . |
| 6 | The local authority would have moved from E o to E 1 had the grant not had any conditions binding . |
| 7 | I personally have not had any problems with over-reaction using this method . |
| 8 | We have not had any reports of missing children in that time . |
| 9 | Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 11 | Erm I 've not had any replies from any of them . |
| 12 | His ideas about blood transfusion are mad , but if someone had not had mad ideas on the subject in the first instance , would anyone have subsequently developed sane ideas ? |
| 13 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 14 | ‘ He judged , did our physician , that the duchess had likely lost her maidenhead some two years earlier — and had not had carnal relations since . |
| 15 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 16 | Henry , taken aback , replied weakly that he had not had carnal relations with Anne 's mother . |
| 17 | We 've not had vivid examples such as Strangeways , but on a daily basis , er the violence within the prison system continues . |
| 18 | These men are bitterly wondering why they have not had more thanks for nursing Hungary towards democracy . |
| 19 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 20 | Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant . |
| 21 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , he did not have certain items of information such as the history of the Star pistol found at the cottage . |
| 23 | What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts . |
| 24 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 25 | We do not have great writers any more , men to whom we can turn for enlightenment and discussion of the most engaging problems . |
| 26 | I do not have five roubles , therefore I can not go to the loo . |
| 27 | ? A dog that does not have four legs is not necessarily defective . |
| 28 | We may talk of such categories as ‘ professionals ’ , ‘ managers ’ , ‘ technicians ’ , ‘ foremen ’ and ‘ manual workers ’ ( and sub-gradations of these ) , but we have to recognise that these terms do not have homogeneous referents , and the degree of real social distinctiveness and cohesiveness of these categories may be highly variable . |
| 29 | Increasing recognition of how oppositional images get incorporated and redefined in ‘ mainstream ’ fashion , coupled with an awareness that images do not have fixed meanings and can be subverted , has led to a re-evaluation of traditionally ‘ erotic ’ clothes . |
| 30 | The University of Reading 's survey comments that most small farmers ‘ could not even subsist on these farms if they did not have outside sources of income . |