Example sentences of "have not a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 2 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 3 | It is clear that the Secretary of State has not a single idea on the issue . |
| 4 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 5 | As for Jimmy , he chooses from a handful of set comments , so he has n't a great deal to say . |
| 6 | you chose it has n't a five year guarantee . |
| 7 | The driver might admit he has n't a current certificate and the relevant conversation can be reproduced in the officer 's statement of evidence . |
| 8 | ‘ Your skin has n't a single blemish , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Tea went through all its stages — scones ( I fancy ) , gingerbread ( which was a success ) , and small cakes with chopped walnut on which were rather good , but I do n't think they appealed to her — she has n't a sweet tooth , I think … |
| 10 | The evidence given to the Select Committee showed that in Norway and Belgium it was the practice to keep in solitary confinement prisoners ( whether sentenced for murder or for other crimes ) who had not a criminal record , but this method was adopted for reformative purposes and for protecting such prisoners from contamination by other prisoners . |
| 11 | The men had not a dry thread on their bodies ; there was not a dugout that could provide dry accommodation . |
| 12 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 13 | They had not a great deal of choice . |
| 14 | Gerald Kaufman , as usual , had not a good word to say for anybody or anything . |
| 15 | He had not a handsome face , but it was better than handsome : being extremely amiable and cheerful . ’ |
| 16 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 17 | I am normally a law-abiding citizen but I had not a single scruple . |
| 18 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 19 | You had not a bad skinful yourself last night ! ’ |
| 20 | They were seated now , on Rab 's ruined chairs ; and Rab noticed that Doctor — some surprise — had not a bad leg . |
| 21 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 22 | And there , as they say , the matter rested , for there was now nothing further we could do ; and Meehan might have had to serve many more years in prison had not a further and quite unexpected twist come to this most tangled of cases . |
| 23 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 24 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 25 | Galway Plate winner The Gooser runs for Paddy Mullins who had n't a great record in the race while Arthur Moore who is something of a specialist in the other Liverpool races ca n't have very high hopes of New Mill House . |
| 26 | I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ? |
| 27 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | My father had n't a bad word to say about anybody . |
| 29 | I have not a strong mind , or will , nor am I unselfish , and so knowing well my faults I ask you to help me . |
| 30 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |