Example sentences of "[vb -s] not have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even today , after all this time , she has not had the guts to say sorry to us , ’ said Teresa 's father Stephen Power , 57 . |
| 2 | The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London . |
| 3 | Over the years the Victor has not had the glamour or attention that has been bestowed on the Vulcan so I am seriously considering starting a Handley Page Victor Association . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The court takes the view that it has not had the benefit of seeing the witnesses , hearing their evidence and forming opinions as to the weight to be attached to it . |
| 6 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 7 | And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’ |
| 8 | The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 10 | In fact , the whole thing is certain to be fully explained in many textbooks , for there is nothing in an undergraduate course which has not had the attention of textbook writers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material . |
| 13 | However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east . |
| 14 | It is most unfortunate that the hon. Gentleman does not have the courtesy or good sense to withdraw an allegation based on his misreading of a newspaper article . |
| 15 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 16 | Therefore , managed floating does not have the advantage of making redundant the holding of official reserves . |
| 17 | A person who does not have the decency to pay taxes on huge wealth deserves greater condemnation than Sarah , the Duchess of York and in case you do n't know to whom I refer , I mean the Queen . |
| 18 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 19 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 20 | It is generally occupied , at any one time , by one person , but it can sometimes be split between two people — a task manager and a task expert , where the manager does not have the expertise but acquires power through the capacity to get the task done . |
| 21 | The easy answer was that a person absent without leave ( that is a person who does not have the leave of his or her responsible medical officer within s.17 of the Mental Health Act 1983 to be absent from the hospital ) is a person unlawfully at large ( as is required for the operation of the entry power in s.17 of PACE ) . |
| 22 | The hon. Lady does not have the leave of the House to speak a second time . |
| 23 | The cruise missile also has not been tested to its full distance overland , because the United States does not have the space . |
| 24 | Kingsley does not tell his readers what will be , but it is evident that he does not have the welfare state in mind . |
| 25 | The real question that the hon. Gentleman should put is to his own party : how will it keep tax and spending plans going if it does not have the benefit of privatisation revenues ? |
| 26 | It may well be that the property does not have the benefit of main drainage and this will lead to the further enquiry as to arrangements for septic tank drainage , whether or not that septic tank drains onto neighbouring property and , if so , what rights are in existence for such an arrangement . |
| 27 | Opposition Members would welcome the opportunity to debate Government and Opposition policies during the general election campaign , but , given that the Prime Minister does not have the guts to call an election , can you please ensure that , during the few remaining weeks of the Government 's period of office , Prime Minister 's Question Time will be used to ask the Prime Minister questions about Government policy ? |
| 28 | The LPGA , for instance , does not have the equivalent of the WPGET 's Tournament Committee , a body which writes a report on every event played on the European calendar . |
| 29 | The British Constitution can be described as flexible in that : ( a ) It does not have the rigidity of most written constitutions as Parliament can repeal any law by a simple majority . |
| 30 | This saving does not have the character of savings ‘ in general ’ , that of being saved for future consumption , but is saved by capitalists . |