Example sentences of "not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could 've been any doctor , and it might not 've been a stethoscope . |
| 2 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 3 | However , whether a horse is friendly or not has no bearing on whether a horse is a good riding horse : some horses who are very good to ride show no indication of liking people at all . |
| 4 | A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places . |
| 5 | If not has any one booked the for next Wednesday night ? |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , whether you wear the ring or not has nothing whatever to do with Didi . |
| 7 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 8 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 9 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 10 | But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way . |
| 11 | The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks . |
| 12 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 13 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |
| 14 | If you have not had time to object , contact the planning officer and ask for extra time . |
| 15 | The council has not had to raise funds to make those payments and unscrambling the transactions would , he said , lead to ratepayers losing out . |
| 16 | Howard 's other films have not had quite comparable pretensions : he appeared in The Return of the Musketeers , Oxford Blues and ‘ just , just ’ in David Hare 's Strapless . |
| 17 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 18 | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament found in Cruise and Trident a stimulus it had not had since the early 1960s . |
| 19 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 20 | In the light of my head torch I could see that Nat was grey-faced with fatigue , his eyelids drooping , his mouth surrounded by frost that he had not had the strength to wipe away . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , such people have not had their daily rhythms studied in detail and so we do not know the time-cues that are important to them . |
| 23 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 24 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 25 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 26 | If Soviet historians have not had time to enter party and state archives , why not publish authoritative foreigners — Isaac Deutscher , E H Carr and Davies himself ? |
| 27 | We have not had the autopsy result . ’ |
| 28 | These men are bitterly wondering why they have not had more thanks for nursing Hungary towards democracy . |
| 29 | Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect . |
| 30 | 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 . |