Example sentences of "not have a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live , as the greatest he ; and therefore truly , sir , I think it 's clear , that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government ; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under ; … ( p. 53 ) |
| 2 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 3 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 4 | I am luckily to be hear to write after the bombing of our works I have not had a chance to explain or to see the person who is in charge of this case … |
| 5 | The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes . |
| 6 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 7 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 8 | No communication has been sent to the British Government about European reference prices , so I have not had a chance to study those , but I pay full tribute to the improvement in productivity . |
| 9 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 10 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 12 | But he may not have a home to go back to . |
| 13 | On Feb. 13 Gregorio Rosal of the rebel communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) announced that the NPA did not have a candidate to support in the elections and that its members would not be taking part . |
| 14 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 15 | In general , parents will not have a chance to see the specimen paper until June 14 . |
| 16 | SIZEWELL public inquiry will not have a chance to consider what everybody agrees is the most crucial safety issue affecting the design for the proposed pressurised-water reactor . |
| 17 | Although pumping out water can bring problems if aquifers do not have a chance to recharge , groundwater is such an enormous resource that it would be unthinkable for us to stop using it . |
| 18 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 19 | It represents the starting point , the fitted value to which the other path values should be added ; for this reason it does not have a sign attached . |
| 20 | One of the problems is that there are teachers who do not have a salary fixed by the Ministry of Education and sometimes this salary is made up from fees paid by the parents since the Ministry argues that they do n't receive a sufficient subsidy to pay the teachers . |
| 21 | Among the visits received by those who did not have a carer living with them , there was similar variation , from a ten-minute visit by a neighbour to check that the sufferer was coping , to the all-day visit by a son or daughter who came to do cleaning , shopping , deal with finances , provide companionship , and so on . |
| 22 | A Mob of Netters may have a Boss armed with a club , they may not have a Boss armed with a net . |
| 23 | Or if I am called to a meeting that does not have a purpose written on the agenda , I demand to know what the purpose of the meeting is , before we start . |
| 24 | 11.6 The police do not have a responsibility to intervene in all situations ; for example , if there is an argument about to whom possessions belong . |
| 25 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 26 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |
| 27 | Similarly , home ownership offers freedom from interference by others , since the home owner does not have a landlord to worry about , nor local government bureaucrats controlling his destiny . |
| 28 | First it was agreed , that a mere voluntary curtesy will not have a consideration to uphold an assumpsit . |
| 29 | When a woman is politically involved , the decision to have or not have a child becomes a political decision as well and not just a question of personal wishes . |
| 30 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |