Example sentences of "not [vb infin] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 2 | Miquel Tàpies does not want to have a hectic turnover of exhibitions , but a twin programme of major retrospectives and seminars which engender debate . |
| 3 | Tom Murray did not want to have a lot of girlfriends , but just one for good , one he could be deeply serious about . |
| 4 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 5 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 6 | They did not need to have a row for Barry to feel constantly undermined by Helen 's attitudes , spoken and unspoken . |
| 7 | This is a question on which I do not vet have a view . |
| 8 | I see wide attackers being allowed to come inside for shots , centre-backs who do not appear to have a clue about positional play and plenty of evidence to suggest that we are no longer producing defenders with the ability and confidence to cope on their own . ’ |
| 9 | In front of the all-seeing eye of the TV camera , he did not appear to have a firm grasp of America 's problems or a clear understanding of where he wanted to go . |
| 10 | The sentence does not appear to have a semantic controller ; that is to say , there is no evidence of privileged status for either subject or predicate in respect of semantic relations between sentences . |
| 11 | Indeed , he does not appear to have a copy of them with him . |
| 12 | Although we did not appear to have a direct hit in any vital part ( and the engines were spared ) as soon as we dropped our bombs , and the photo-flash meant we had a picture of where we had left our load , we turned for home . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough are in with a fine chance of that second automatic promotion spot , especially as they do not appear to have a difficult run-in . |
| 14 | The education convener , Mervyn Rolfe , said that although Tayside did not appear to have a greater bullying problem than elsewhere , anything which impeded a pupil should be tackled swiftly and methodically . |
| 15 | I am unable to cope with the idea of being any heavier than I am now , and would not like to have a period , since I would feel I had ‘ let up ’ control over my body . |
| 16 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 17 | However , many women in this position do not like having a feminine title . |
| 18 | It did not have to have a name . |
| 19 | Family counselling does not have to have a historical basis . |
| 20 | Firms do not have to have a written relocation policy ; although there are obvious advantages if they do . |
| 21 | Subba Row , who will not have had a hand in this particular decision , sees him as a ‘ good scout ’ . |
| 22 | Subba Row , who will not have had a hand in this particular decision , sees him as a ‘ good scout ’ . |
| 23 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 24 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 25 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 26 | She may or may not have had a longstanding paranoid personality ; that 's hard for relatives to cope with , but not necessarily pathological . ’ |
| 27 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |
| 28 | I could not have had a better send off , and I realized that the public battles had played only a marginal part in it . |
| 29 | His mother should not have had a full ( or even half-full ) mug or one with a handle . |
| 30 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |