Example sentences of "did [not/n't] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Its excuse was that it did not have a computer programme that would fit the bill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was in spite of the fact that Prussia did not have a majority in the Federal Council : she could be outvoted . |
| 9 | Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although Leonard did not have a contract with the company , he was a director for life . |
| 15 | You did not have a choice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At sixteen he discovered girls and decided he did not have a vocation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In comparison , a survey of 1,200 white pensioners living in Melton Mowbray found only 2 per cent did not have a state pension . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Due to the way in which he handled its introduction , it did not have a cat in hell 's chance of succeeding . |
| 27 | Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong . |
| 28 | The remarkable achievements of Charlemagne are further emphasized by the fact that he did not have a standing or regular army at any time . |
| 29 | He did not have a watch , the only timepiece in the family was an aged alarm clock sitting on the kitchen shelf . |
| 30 | Among the visits received by those who did not have a carer living with them , there was similar variation , from a ten-minute visit by a neighbour to check that the sufferer was coping , to the all-day visit by a son or daughter who came to do cleaning , shopping , deal with finances , provide companionship , and so on . |