Example sentences of "not to have [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would all have liked to be able to eat normally at meals and not to have to hit each other to be first in the breakfast queue . |
| 2 | Matriarchal planter culture appears not to have overcome this difficulty of development completely . |
| 3 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 4 | I should have preferred not to have to raise this matter in an Adjournment debate . |
| 5 | The majority of those young people who leave home to live rough are found not to have chosen this course but , rather , to have had it thrust upon them by circumstances . |
| 6 | You claim not to have found any lighter , is that it ? ’ |