Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] have the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Most of their working-class contemporaries , of course , did not even have the opportunity . |
| 5 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 6 | Unlike the natural sciences , in a liberal society the social ones did not even have the stimulus of technological progress . |
| 7 | As he had once said , he did not really have the temperament of a gunner . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This important volume , subsequently republished in parts , did not perhaps have the immediate effect that might have been expected . |
| 10 | They found that patients with the highest serum gastrin concentrations did not necessarily have the highest enterochromaffin like cell counts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Garrick joined , and Adam Smith , thereby ensuring that Johnson did not always have the discourse his own way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Democracy ’ , rule by the people , did not always have the good press it enjoys today . |
| 17 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 18 | Scotland 's wilderness areas do not even have the advantages of the little protection afforded to the English parks . |
| 19 | Dental surgeons do not even have the cheap finance available to general medical practitioners . |
| 20 | Crowded together with no room to move ( the proverbial ‘ five laying hens ’ in today 's battery cage do not even have the space to stand up together — one or more must crouch ) , animals no longer wasted calories in non profit-making exercise . |
| 21 | It seems ludicrous that Scottish Back-Benchers do not even have the facility of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs to which we could summon Ministers and ask them in detail about the problems that we face . |
| 22 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 23 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 24 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 25 | Renters are not ‘ down-and-outs ’ , but those who do not yet have the opportunity to own a home , though they may well do so in later life . |
| 26 | Adolescent girls do not yet have the lid of society fitting tightly on their bubbling psyches — and we have , therefore , the phenomenon of frenzied screaming at rock stars , or wild dancing , as an outlet for some of this ‘ night energy ’ . |
| 27 | In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition . |
| 28 | Phone back within twenty-four hours to report progress even if you do not yet have the answer . |
| 29 | I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April . |
| 30 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |