Example sentences of "have not have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even today , after all this time , she has not had the guts to say sorry to us , ’ said Teresa 's father Stephen Power , 57 . |
| 2 | The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London . |
| 3 | Over the years the Victor has not had the glamour or attention that has been bestowed on the Vulcan so I am seriously considering starting a Handley Page Victor Association . |
| 4 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 5 | The court takes the view that it has not had the benefit of seeing the witnesses , hearing their evidence and forming opinions as to the weight to be attached to it . |
| 6 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 7 | And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’ |
| 8 | The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 10 | In fact , the whole thing is certain to be fully explained in many textbooks , for there is nothing in an undergraduate course which has not had the attention of textbook writers . |
| 11 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 12 | Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material . |
| 13 | However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east . |
| 14 | Most of the pools in Bosnia are damaged so he has n't had the chance to go swimming much before . |
| 15 | I 'm particularly sad my mother has n't had the opportunity to buy even his MC . |
| 16 | Is n't working but has n't had the sack . |
| 17 | ‘ In this case I 'm surprised that Stella has n't had the sense to allow Bill to take her to a doctor in Hastings right away . ’ |
| 18 | and has n't had the example of either a mother or a father who understands the necessity of |
| 19 | It 's got instant character , whereas a new guitar has n't had the years of beating on it and fiddling with to give it the character . |
| 20 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 21 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 22 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 23 | While I wondered about his motives , he stoked up his contempt for the whole Jewish race , which had not had the decency to get itself wiped out , as rumoured . |
| 24 | Even at forty-five m.p.h. the smell of burning rubber would have been overpowering if they had not had the windows open . |
| 25 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 26 | Ruth was tempted to tell her that at the time she had not had the vicar in mind , but since Mrs Peterson had not come to bring her any comfort , she simply turned her face to the wall . |
| 27 | At least , she thought as the taxi carried her to the astrologer 's home , she had not had the ordeal of having to explain her bizarre decision to go out to Piers . |
| 28 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 29 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 30 | Mary had lost both parents , her husband and two children within the space of ten years , and had not had the opportunity to acknowledge any of the effect this had on her . |