Example sentences of "[vb mod] not have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she must not have a wooden leg or a cast in her eye , since these are things most of us hope to escape . |
| 2 | There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape . |
| 3 | At this stage , asylum seekers may not have a legal adviser . |
| 4 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 5 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
| 6 | People who ‘ expect ’ older people to have worsening health or to ‘ decline ’ in their faculties , may not have a positive approach to various ways of coping with physical and mental changes . |
| 7 | ( Smaller companies may not have a special book , but instead keep the advice/delivery note on file ) |
| 8 | Global warming or any of the thousand other worries that come under the environmental heading may or may not have a sound scientific basis , but subjective judgement is still required to determine what priority to give them , and what rules , actions and expenditure are justified to relieve them . |
| 9 | Also remember that although signing one card for everyone might be cheaper for you , there are still some folk within the fellowship who may not have a big circle of family or friends and who would really appreciate a card from you . |
| 10 | The problem of consistency of measurement techniques over a long period of time will have to be faced and may not have a satisfactory solution . |
| 11 | A WARNING against making telephone bookings for ‘ bargain ’ cruises with companies that may not to have a single seaworthy vessel was issued to charge card customers yesterday . |
| 12 | A WARNING against making telephone bookings for ‘ bargain ’ cruises with companies that may not to have a single seaworthy vessel was issued to charge card customers yesterday . |
| 13 | It was rather like working out the details of one of her plots : circumstances capable of more than one interpretation ; actions which might or might not be innocent ; individuals who might or might not have a genuine motive , the means and opportunity to commit the crime . |
| 14 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 15 | But Sartre 's courageous intervention against French and other colonialisms could not have a corresponding theoretical impact so long as he retained his historicist Marxist framework . |
| 16 | The trial was , however , relatively small ( 59 patients ) raising the possibility of a type two error , and it is possible that fluticasone propionate was not present in sigmoid colon and rectum and this could not have a therapeutic effect ( two thirds of patients had rectosigmoid disease only ) . |
| 17 | Soon after the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 outlawed surrogacy contracts , members of the British Medical Association at their annual meeting voted by a small majority , that surrogacy should be allowed as infertility ’ therapy ’ for couples who could not have a biological child any other way . |
| 18 | It should be noted that the persons present need not have a common purpose ( R. v. Mahroof ( C.A. , 1988 ) ) ; that once again it is unnecessary to produce a frightened bystander ; and that unlike riot , it is sufficient to intend to threaten violence . |
| 19 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |
| 20 | They need not have a common purpose , although they will frequently do so . |
| 21 | Such chaotic attractors need not have a fractal structure , and attractors with a fractal structure need not be chaotic [ 10 ] . |
| 22 | Based on actuarial calculations , such a step would not have a long-term impact on the provision for pensions , they claimed . |
| 23 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |
| 24 | They would not have a great choice of subjects in their fourth and fifth years . |
| 25 | Cllr Eddie McEvilly , Labour , said : ‘ It is really quite disgraceful for chief officers to show our hand like this and reveal we would not have a strong case . ’ |
| 26 | She had been left before when she was eight years old , but if she allowed herself to stay with Alain , to love him , she would not have a whole childhood to recover from it . |
| 27 | How can you be sure that any future development of these sites would not have a deleterious effect on the conservation area , the listed buildings , the archaeology and the natural history ? |
| 28 | The reality of change is certainly understood by the Scottish business community which well knows the impact that some of the alternatives would have on Scotland — they would not have a happy impact . |
| 29 | Managing director Kevin Eakin said that while the half percentage point cut would not have a dramatic effect , it was part of a series of cuts all in the right direction . |
| 30 | Their lawyers argued the men would not have a fair trial because of the delays , and proceedings against them were stayed . |