Example sentences of "it [vb past] [not/n't] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped not having the accompaniment . |
| 2 | The Republic was not strong , it did not have a middle class to support and stabilise it . |
| 3 | Its excuse was that it did not have a computer programme that would fit the bill . |
| 4 | Due to the way in which he handled its introduction , it did not have a cat in hell 's chance of succeeding . |
| 5 | Now North Yorkshire County Council er I think in their statement look to erm to existing market towns to provide what little evidence they can up to justify fourteen hundred dwellings , er I think that 's again a simplistic approach because by definition the market now can seal them up wider catchment area , many of them are some distance from York , and the settlements concerned provide a service base for a number of surrounding villages , and therefore the actual specialities and services found within that particular settlement are greater than one would achieve if it did not have a large catchment area . |
| 6 | It did not have a calming effect on the Indonesian crowd . |
| 7 | No one could ignore the Rio Summit even if much of what came out of it did not have an immediate effect on business . |
| 8 | It was not , in fact , a bad educational programme , but it did not have the glamour of Cambridge English , where the idea of criticism was central , as instanced by the great success and influence of Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 9 | But the bank is believed to have replied that it did not have the power to do so . |
| 10 | But it did not provide enough segregated schools and enough women teachers to educate the girls separately from the boys in all cases , and it did not have the strength to insist that girls should be educated in mixed schools by male teachers : most Libyan parents would have objected strongly to laws compelling mixed education . |
| 11 | Thomas himself was satisfied with the performance of his models though , of course , it did not have the refinements of the lift as eventually built , nor did the tanks have a wide track and a short wheel base . |
| 12 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 13 | When researchers tried to mimic the results on other animals , such as chick embryos , it did not have the same effect . |
| 14 | Some doubting townsfolk had their reservations , so Thomas offered that if it did not have the desired effect he would forego his fee . |
| 15 | It did not have the spines of a bristleworm , having what looked like feathery gills on each segment instead . |
| 16 | He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ . |
| 17 | Vet Steve Gillian told David and Pauline Drury and their 16-year-old twins , Beverley and Paul , the cat would have to be put down if it did not have the operation . |
| 18 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 19 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
| 20 | In this way the Bank attempted to avoid the situation of a gilt-edged marketmaker being in financial difficulties because it did not have the capital resources to cover any contingent liabilities incurred during operations in the market . |
| 21 | ‘ But you say it did not have the chain on it ? ’ |
| 22 | Another overseas power with which England had uneasy relations , particularly over trading matters , was the league of Hanse towns of North Germany ; there were times when these developed into open warfare , but although this affected trade , it did not have the same repercussions on society as did the wars with France . |
| 23 | With one exception , he won every case he presented to the VAT tribunal — the exception being when the tribunal decided it did not have the jurisdiction to hear the case . |
| 24 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 25 | It did n't have a chance . |
| 26 | In other words , it was n't very deep , it did n't have a filter , and any informality was down to my indifferent building skills , rather than intentional . |
| 27 | ‘ Because we were having work done on our house , Sophie and I were staying in a rented place and it did n't have a phone . |
| 28 | It did n't have a chorus and the bass line was frug heaven and guitars were abstract-sounding while the new thing , digital sampling , was in there somewhere too . |
| 29 | It did n't have a chance ; not even a tiny chance of living . |
| 30 | Indeed , they had just finished a three month study , half funded by the hospital ‘ at a time when it did n't have a penny ’ to assess bed blocking on one medical/geriatric ward that had particular problems . |