Example sentences of "not have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’
2 ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing .
3 And I 've not had a good enough reason why — that 's all I 'm hurting Brian , I do n't think that is taking anything too far . ’
4 ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days .
5 The House has not had a good record in the past years .
6 He said last night : ‘ Until now we have not had a real marker which would tell a cancer cell from a normal cell . ’
7 ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman .
8 It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops .
9 This is obviously disturbing for both the child and his or her family , particularly if they have not had a great deal of contact with hospitals previously .
10 Since the Root Thesaurus did not emerge until 1981 , it has not had a great impact on existing thesauri to date , but it could well be important in the future .
11 We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us .
12 Erm we have not had a great deal of time to put this together .
13 She had not had a violent case of laughing for years .
14 ‘ Records will show very shortly that we have not had a typical winter for this part of the country and that seems to be the main reason , ’ he told the environmental health committee yesterday .
15 By the looks of Carla she had not had a decent meal for weeks .
16 They would claim that elections ( hitherto ) in the Soviet Union , or in , say , El Salvador or the Philippines under President Marcos , have not been free : the people have not had a genuine choice open to them .
17 And although Scotland has not had a wide reaching policy of moving psychiatric patients out of hospitals , community care for mentally ill people has advanced spontaneously .
18 With the exception of preparation for his meeting with Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , he has still not had a full-blown meeting on trade with his economic team .
19 But since the X-ray satellite Ariel VI , it has not had a national project .
20 It also stimulated scientific research by providing a definite name for something that previously had not had a satisfactory title .
21 Secondly , if West had not had a likely looking entry perhaps the opening lead would have been different .
22 David Burns , who heads a service in Chicago that matches athletes and advertisers , told Associated Press he had not had a single inquiry about Yamaguchi since her Olympic win , watched by one of the biggest television audiences for the Winter Games .
23 The Down Orange Welfare and Ulster Service Corps ( both rural and small town ) have not had a single member imprisoned for a terrorist offence nor has the rural section of the Orange Volunteers .
24 I 've written six letters and not had a single reply .
25 Turner says : ‘ We have not had a single offer for Ken — not yet .
26 There are still a few thousand of the biggest losers who have not had a single penny increase in income from that day to this .
27 We now have to vote on the timing of its procedures , even though we have not had a single hour of discussion in Committee .
28 but I 'm most disgruntled the way Geoffrey 's getting on , he 's not had a single parents evening this year , you know normally you go back to school , you have one September , October which is always too soon
29 ‘ Although I had not had a sexual experience when I was at high school , I thought I should be ready , if and when it came , and so I thought I should stock up .
30 America , which has not had a big oil spill since 1976 , is reacting collectively and predictably to the spill in Prince William Sound off Alaska by condemning the oil business and all its works .
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