Example sentences of "not have [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 2 | ‘ Just as long as I can spread a little happiness at whatever cost to my dignity , I will not have lived in vain . |
| 3 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the BCS distinguished between the fear of crime , i.e. people 's fear of being victimised , and concern with crime , people 's more general anxiety about crime which did not have to do with personal Ask . |
| 5 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 6 | The seller does not have to agree to this and if he does , that will not normally affect the operation of section 20 . |
| 7 | Indeed it may well be that the most powerful person is someone who does not have to resort to physical force at all . |
| 8 | But he does not have to cope with all of this all at once . |
| 9 | The introduction of summary financial statements ensured that building society members did not have to cope with extensive , detailed financial information that they did not want and could not be expected to understand . |
| 10 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 11 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 12 | It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road . |
| 13 | Yes , it was true he need not have wanted for female companionship over the past months . |
| 14 | ‘ We would not have stayed with this product so long if we did not believe there was potential to make at least £20 million annual profit from it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 15 | The most popular British cult object , however , has no wheels and would not have moved at all if it was not for British Telecom . |
| 16 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 17 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 18 | YOU MAY not have heard of serial killer and cannibal Ed Gein , but you 've probably seen his movies . |
| 19 | You may not have heard of some of these things , but one day you probably will . |
| 20 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 21 | If I had held that the disturbance to residents in those roads was otherwise actionable in nuisance , I should not have acceded to those submissions . |
| 22 | erm I enlisted in the Air Force December thirty nine , and I had six and a half years taken out of my life for helping with the war effort , and hopefully my sons and my grandsons will not have to go into another war . |
| 23 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 24 | He should not have lost with such a lead . |
| 25 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 26 | But he should not have played since 1 October , when temporary clearance from the English Basket Ball Association expired . |
| 27 | Even if Article 36 bis had been included in the Vienna Convention on International Organisations it would not have applied in this situation . |
| 28 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 29 | ‘ Obviously you do not have to answer at this stage if you would prefer not to , but I wondered if Mr Riddle had taken out any substantial life insurance or endowment policies ? ’ |
| 30 | He did not have to contend with hundreds of tourists . |