Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always wanted to write and only regrets that she did not sooner have the courage to devote herself to it . |
| 2 | He did not yet have a chancery of his own , but it seems he did have his own chapel , that is , a team of household chaplains ( presumably equipped with relics ) . |
| 3 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 4 | A spokesman claimed it did not even have a record of the name of the hero pilot or a list of the passengers . |
| 5 | For two years until autumn 1991 and Dr Chiappini 's appointment , it did not even have a director . |
| 6 | She did not even have a blanket , she had no money for food , and no idea of where to go for help . |
| 7 | They did not even have a rowing-team , as far as he was aware . |
| 8 | The men guilty of these outrages did not even have the excuse of their European counterparts , who could sometimes claim that wartime bombing had flattened the great stations which they were replacing . |
| 9 | Most of their working-class contemporaries , of course , did not even have the opportunity . |
| 10 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 11 | Unlike the natural sciences , in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress . |
| 12 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 13 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 14 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 15 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 16 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 17 | This important volume , subsequently republished in parts , did not perhaps have the immediate effect that might have been expected . |
| 18 | There is a tradition that the cattle of eastern England have Scandinavian origins , but the West of England influence was strong and during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Devon blood was widely used in Norfolk ( especially , of course , by Coke of Holkham and his tenants ) , though it did not necessarily have a direct influence on the future Red Poll . |
| 19 | It came as a shock to find that the Englishman 's home did not necessarily have a spare bedroom or a bath or inside lavatory . |
| 20 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 21 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 22 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 23 | They found that patients with the highest serum gastrin concentrations did not necessarily have the highest enterochromaffin like cell counts . |
| 24 | This did not originally have the plunging action of today 's routers , and was really only a fixed motor with a collet to take a limited number of cutters . |
| 25 | Too often , where land ownership was fragmented , development was slow to occur : statutory bodies were reluctant to sell unwanted land , and small , private owners did not often have the expertise and resources to benefit from financial incentives . |
| 26 | Her remarkable statement in an interview , ‘ I am the Cabinet rebel ’ suggests that , if she gave a lead , she did not always have a majority of followers . |
| 27 | He did not always have a voice , but he always had a point of view . |
| 28 | But Branson always regarded licensing deals as unsatisfactory ; in the first place , the licensee could pick and choose which records it wanted to release , and did not always have the ‘ emotional commitment ’ to making them hits . |
| 29 | Garrick joined , and Adam Smith , thereby ensuring that Johnson did not always have the discourse his own way . |
| 30 | An essay or a lecture on some general theme did not always have the required effect , as some of the otherwise magisterial addresses delivered when he was a world-figure tend to show . |