Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [art] monopoly [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core will need to recognise that it does not have a monopoly of expertise and knowledge . |
| 2 | For all their probable weaknesses , however , the civil service , business and the unions do not have a monopoly of conservatism and resistance to change . |
| 3 | Men did not have a monopoly of travel , or of disguise . |
| 4 | And SPUC does not have a monopoly on horror . |
| 5 | Just to prove that the Slovenians do not have a monopoly on canoeing competition labels on alcoholic drinks , the French came up with this pleasant number . |
| 6 | London does not have a monopoly on chat this Sunday , however . |
| 7 | Plants do not have a monopoly on photosynthesis . |
| 8 | The late Ian Fleming did not have a monopoly in tongue-in-cheek , humorous adventures about secret agents , but a novelist might commit the tort of passing-off if he changes his name to Ian Fleming or uses the name James Bond or the 007 code in his novel . |
| 9 | The health service does not have a monopoly in cleaning , catering and laundry skills in the same way that it does in the skills required to treat sick people . |
| 10 | The Commission is present at the political co-operation meetings , which proves useful and important , but it does not have the monopoly of initiative , as it would have if the meetings took place under the treaty of Rome . |
| 11 | The second is that the statutory services do not have the monopoly of altruism or the monopoly of occupying the high moral ground , and I think that those of you who saw the presentation given yesterday afternoon by Mike O'Reilly on the work that 's being done at Knowesouth , the private home he and his wife run , would have to concede that that was an excellent example of the kind of not only interesting , but the kind of pushing forward the boundaries of what can be done in different kinds of settings for people with dementia . |
| 12 | It may also have been reassuring to US audiences , while America was being condemned world-wide for its barbaric acts in Vietnam , to see that they did not have the monopoly on violence , which could even be found in an English village . |