Example sentences of "[not/n't] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I do not have the good fortune to know your family , Emilia , I am hardly in a position to say , though I feel sure they would wish to know of your distress . ’ |
| 2 | Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day . |
| 3 | Although the domestic authorities do not have the immediate problem of defending a fixed exchange rate under the present system , the external situation has still had an overriding influence on most countries ' domestic policies , as was indicated by UK experience during most of the 1970s and the late 1980s . |
| 4 | No sense of a sharing in the social meaning of what was going on emerges , and we daresay the unfortunate teacher , with whose plight we do indeed sympathize , did not have the faintest idea what was afoot . |
| 5 | The Government are dragooning their troops to push the Bill through the House despite the fact that they do not have the faintest idea how they or British Rail will pay for it . |
| 6 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 7 | It lacks the vitality to throw these conditions off ; it does not have the expulsive power of Ipecacuanha and the chest steadily fills up with mucus ; rattling breathing with the inability to raise phlegm . |
| 8 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |
| 9 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 10 | ‘ Women in the industry are not dissatisfied with such work ’ asserts Blauner , without giving his evidence for this statement : ‘ Work does not have the central importance and meaning in their lives that it does for men , since their most important roles are those of wives and mothers ’ . |
| 11 | But it is our considered judgement that this knowledge did not have the reactive effect which the sensitive nature of the issue might suggest . |
| 12 | ( It is probable that fish and chips is ambiguous , with one opaque and one transparent reading , the two being optionally distinguishable in pronunciation ; chips and fish , on the other hand , is not ambiguous , and does not have the two pronunciation options . ) |
| 13 | Women do not have the one way in which to be beautiful , but many . |
| 14 | The now highly developed Access Course programme and the newly introduced Evening Degree Programme provide wide opportunities in higher education for an increasing number of students who wish to enter higher education but do not have the traditional entry qualifications . |
| 15 | He was unlike Tait or Rayleigh or J. J. Thomson in that he did not have the useful start in scientific life of a Cambridge degree , or indeed any degree . |
| 16 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 17 | ‘ He did not have the greatest game as a player , but as a captain he was wonderful . ’ |
| 18 | Powerboating may not have the international pull or prestige of car racing but it does pack in the crowds … |
| 19 | The public , which did not have the inside information of the police , could be less sure . |
| 20 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 21 | Because agents are seen merely as the supports of this structure , their intentional properties do not enter into social explanation ; and because its various components are interdetermined , the economic sphere does not have the straightforward primacy that economism requires . |
| 22 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 23 | I telephoned Burakovsky , who ordered the child to be brought in , examined her , but said there was nothing they could do because , unfortunately , they did not have the right kind of specialists . |
| 24 | Some of the smaller , poorer countries may not have the right equipment or training for the new types of job . |
| 25 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 26 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 27 | 720K 3.5inch floppies do not have the second hole in the casing . |
| 28 | If do you not have the required privilege , you will be able to view the various index pages , but you will be prevented from entering any of the privileged options . |
| 29 | If do you not have the required privilege , you will be able to view the various index pages , but you will be prevented from executing any of the privileged options . |
| 30 | If , upon arrival of the goods , the consignee does not have the required bill of lading in his possession , he often obtains the carrier 's release of the goods by tendering an acceptable letter of indemnity . |