Example sentences of "[not/n't] have the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Does the Minister realise that many small primary schools are now under enormous pressure in terms of delivering the full curriculum because they do not have the additional resources to enable them to employ the staff to teach it ? |
| 6 | If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons . |
| 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 | Often recommended for cleaning purposes , to avoid the spread of contamination inherent in the use of cloths , it does not have the mechanical properties necessary for anything other than very light soil removal . |
| 12 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |
| 13 | But it is our considered judgement that this knowledge did not have the reactive effect which the sensitive nature of the issue might suggest . |
| 14 | We do not have the predictive tools to identify correctly all actual and potential cases of abuse — nor are we likely to have them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Unlike the US , Japan or Germany , it can not affect the outcome of events in the former Soviet Union , since it does not have the economic resources to play a significant role . |
| 19 | Powerboating may not have the international pull or prestige of car racing but it does pack in the crowds … |
| 20 | The public , which did not have the inside information of the police , could be less sure . |
| 21 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one . |
| 26 | The mayor continued his address , but he did not have the right answers . |
| 27 | Some of the smaller , poorer countries may not have the right equipment or training for the new types of job . |
| 28 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 29 | He was due to be put down because he did not have the right ears for a show class pedigree corgi . |
| 30 | 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 . |