Example sentences of "not have [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government obviously do not have such a plan , or it would have been mentioned today . |
| 2 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 3 | If they do not have such a grounding , it will be difficult for them to pursue more advanced studies subsequently , especially in ‘ vertebrate ’ subjects such as mathematics and science ; also , a merely partial or incomplete exposure to such forms of knowledge sells them short in terms of human thought , indeed of the very concept of mind . |
| 4 | But many managers do not have such a background ; for them the need to think quantitatively is sometimes alien , or at least a strain . |
| 5 | However , deprivation of liberty for a shorter period does not have such an effect . |
| 6 | This remains unknown in man , but we have investigated the effects of commonly used anaesthetic agents on tissue protein synthesis in the rat and found that although halothane causes a significant depression of liver protein synthesis , isoflurance did not have such an effect . |
| 7 | That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred . |
| 8 | Secondly , management does not have all the knowledge required to determine how to meet its objective . |
| 9 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , next month , my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) and I shall be visiting the European Commission and Parliament — not only to tell Mr. Delors that he can not have all the money that he is asking from the British people , but to create business opportunities for our constituents ? |
| 10 | The mere fact that he did not have all the information could not be an excuse for not complying with the notice under s 8 , TMA 1970 . |
| 11 | If you only put people in who are owner-occupiers then you will not have all the information , all the people , who are in rented accommodation . |
| 12 | Then , in the early part of this century , the quantum theory appeared ; its details need not concern us except for the fact that it implied that all forms of matter and energy came in tiny discrete packages called quanta ( by ‘ discrete ’ is meant that you can not have half a quantum ) . |
| 13 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 14 | ‘ That all hinges on Nigel Steen having a financial motive to kill his father , and , as you just observed , he very positively did n't have such a motive . ’ |
| 15 | No , a peasant 's hovel would n't have such a thing , but surely a fire would have been needed for cooking ? |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't have all the evidence , ’ she said slowly . |
| 17 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 18 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't have half an hour , ’ Jack argued . |