Example sentences of "not have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've not had that problem . |
| 2 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 3 | And you 've not had that invitation ? |
| 4 | I have not had such dreams since I was a boy . ’ |
| 5 | My other self — my Chinese self — has not had such understanding . |
| 6 | She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time . |
| 7 | I 've not had one tool that 's done what I tell it to do every time . |
| 8 | ‘ But they have not had one crib about it . |
| 9 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 10 | Of persons who have not had prior hepatitis B vaccination or post exposure prophylaxis , 6% to 30% of persons who have received a needlestick exposure from an HBsAg positive individual will become infected . |
| 11 | And yet it would be unfair to deny the validity of art , that open forum in which we unceasingly sound out our emotional and intellectual understanding , merely because it has not had immediate effect on events in society . |
| 12 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
| 13 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 14 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 15 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've not had much chance , ’ she added by way of apology for herself . |
| 17 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 18 | He 's not had much sleep though , poor sod . |
| 19 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 20 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 21 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 22 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 23 | Have you not had much energy recently ? |
| 24 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 25 | I have been on to-day , so I have not had much time , I have wrote to G. Titman to-night . |
| 26 | We have not had much trouble like that since we went ex-directory . ’ |
| 27 | Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've not had much cause , either . ’ |
| 29 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 30 | The stories of Manjiku she had heard on the island , when she was herself a girl , had not had happy endings : Manjiku continued to raid the inland waters for women , his hunger was not to be appeased , his need to have babies of his own still raged . |