Example sentences of "have not have the " in BNC.

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1 Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog .
2 I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for .
3 ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’
4 Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect .
5 However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east .
6 And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’
7 Atkinson said : ‘ He has not had the best of seasons so far and probably felt he was being frozen out , but He came back and had his best game for us against Arsenal . ’
8 ‘ Colin has not had the best of luck with injuries but technically he is an excellent player .
9 ‘ At least he is symmetrical but his left leg has not had the same exercise so it 's not the same size as his right . ’
10 Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material .
11 ‘ Even today , after all this time , she has not had the guts to say sorry to us , ’ said Teresa 's father Stephen Power , 57 .
12 Over the years the Victor has not had the glamour or attention that has been bestowed on the Vulcan so I am seriously considering starting a Handley Page Victor Association .
13 The court takes the view that it has not had the benefit of seeing the witnesses , hearing their evidence and forming opinions as to the weight to be attached to it .
14 In fact , the whole thing is certain to be fully explained in many textbooks , for there is nothing in an undergraduate course which has not had the attention of textbook writers .
15 The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London .
16 It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features .
17 Bill has not had the best of seasons this year but , unlike most northern trainers , he has some very rich owners , including Sheikh Mohammed , Robert Sangster and American millionaire Joe Albritton .
18 The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance .
19 The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination .
20 It 's got instant character , whereas a new guitar has n't had the years of beating on it and fiddling with to give it the character .
21 ‘ In this case I 'm surprised that Stella has n't had the sense to allow Bill to take her to a doctor in Hastings right away . ’
22 Most of the pools in Bosnia are damaged so he has n't had the chance to go swimming much before .
23 I 'm particularly sad my mother has n't had the opportunity to buy even his MC .
24 and has n't had the example of either a mother or a father who understands the necessity of
25 Is n't working but has n't had the sack .
26 Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets .
27 In the light of my head torch I could see that Nat was grey-faced with fatigue , his eyelids drooping , his mouth surrounded by frost that he had not had the strength to wipe away .
28 Mary had lost both parents , her husband and two children within the space of ten years , and had not had the opportunity to acknowledge any of the effect this had on her .
29 Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots .
30 Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ .
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