Example sentences of "not have it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 2 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
| 3 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 4 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
| 5 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 6 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 7 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 8 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 9 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
| 10 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
| 11 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 12 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
| 13 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
| 15 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 16 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
| 17 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |