Example sentences of "do not have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( we do just do n't have the reputation for it ) .
2 And it was n't as effective but other than that I ca n't I do n't have the sort of the detailed information to er to refer to .
3 ‘ There are things we ca n't yet contemplate doing because even if we did we do n't have the processing power to take advantage of them . ’
4 Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card .
5 Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning .
6 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 .
7 Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ .
8 Its excuse was that it did not have a computer programme that would fit the bill .
9 This should not present any major difficulties in the context of computers , although a dating agency which wanted to use a service mark " COMPUTADATE " but did not have a computer might fall into this category .
10 Essex have been practising outdoors at Chelmsford since April 1 , which gives them a week 's start on Durham , although they did not have a winter tour .
11 This was in spite of the fact that Prussia did not have a majority in the Federal Council : she could be outvoted .
12 Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress .
13 This meant that the Social Democrats would not be entitled to any extra seats allocated from the party list , and as a result , did not have a majority .
14 She did not scream and weep — at least in front of him — when things went wrong and did not have a reputation for being raucous about women 's rights .
15 ‘ The woman was disgusted to find that we did not have a microwave oven for her to polish , and she has a doctor 's certificate to say she can not bend down .
16 If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently .
17 Although Leonard did not have a contract with the company , he was a director for life .
18 You did not have a choice .
19 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 .
20 The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent .
21 At sixteen he discovered girls and decided he did not have a vocation .
22 We can certainly take this point : on David Frost 's programme the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East did not have a thought in his head about the phasing in of any of those changes .
23 He did not have a karma ; he was not locked onto an inescapable railway line to a predetermined destiny — an idea that has frozen the will of millions in the East .
24 In those days , Robinson was in the side mainly because he was a willing workhorse at a time when Yorkshire did not have a surfeit of senior fast bowlers .
25 The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive .
26 In comparison , a survey of 1,200 white pensioners living in Melton Mowbray found only 2 per cent did not have a state pension .
27 But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests !
28 Hours lost , days lost , weeks , months … it 's a pity that we did not have a day together to mull & muse … however , 't was lovely to see you , to see you , lovely .
29 Due to the way in which he handled its introduction , it did not have a cat in hell 's chance of succeeding .
30 Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong .
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