Example sentences of "not have [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 The trader may not have expertise in accounting or buying
2 We do not have sovereignty in this House ; it is a shorthand for the sovereignty of the people .
3 These are all experiences we have had that tell us about the body 's state at the time , and we do not have difficulty in interpreting them .
4 It is not good practice simply to leave the cable poking out of the wall , and many wall light fittings will not have space in their backing plate to make the connections .
5 Only drink bottled water ( a well-known brand , if possible , such as Perrier ) and do not have ice in your drinks .
6 I think that its , its choice that 's something we have n't sort of looked at tonight , I think its the important er factor in a fact that we 've got an audience here with a large representative er percentage of er access to a car and certainly erm I working in the transport field in West Central Scotland , er that is not the case , in Glasgow where the car ownership is something in the order of seventy per cent of the population do not have access to a car or do not have access in a household , we , you are then talking , you have to look very , very seriously at what public transport must provide in order to meet just day , day to day activities and I think that this choice aspect is something that is absolutely vital as the lady in front says .
7 THERE never has been , and never will be , a champion golfer who does not have fire in his belly .
8 With the usual kindly swat , and again directing his intellectual energy towards moral concerns , Johnson replies , ‘ No sir , he can not have pleasure in music , at least no power of producing music ; for he who can produce music may let it alone ; he who can play upon a fiddle may break it : such a man is not a machine . ’
9 She did not have claustrophobia in small rooms or lifts .
10 As the LSCA put it : ‘ If the momentum of consultation and communication is not maintained , members will not have confidence in the leaders of the Institute nor in the future proposals for financing its activities . ’
11 Anyone who has contact with the real world knows that sometimes the management might not have confidence in the work force and the work force might not have confidence in the management .
12 Anyone who has contact with the real world knows that sometimes the management might not have confidence in the work force and the work force might not have confidence in the management .
13 That they are empty other than at times when children are out of their classrooms or outside the school premises is a constant reminder that primary-school teachers do not have time in the working day to do other than teach .
14 Another aspect that interferes with learning is not having confidence in the equipment .
15 They had n't had gas in their last room .
16 Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes .
17 They do n't have meat in do they ?
18 ( They do n't have winter in Greece , you know . )
19 Not because he did n't have faith in his own production .
20 He should n't have faith in me .
21 Oh we do n't have milk in coffee .
22 Last year the pubs were full of incredulously spendthrift Irishmen : they did n't have money in their pockets any longer — they had Euromoney , which is much more powerful stuff .
23 Do n't have ice in your drinks — it may not be made with purified water
24 ‘ Oddly enough , such an item does n't have priority in my wallet , ’ he murmured condescendingly .
25 'Course , we did n't have telly in those days , and could n't afford holidays or anything like that .
26 Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are
27 they would n't have room in one car for four dogs would they ?
28 Well if you look backwards erm at nineteen eighty six which , although we did n't have war in nineteen eighty six we had a series of horrendous events .
29 Why else would the Americans make the joke ‘ You do n't have weather in England , only samples ( and when I say England , of course I include Wales , Scotland , the Isle of Wight and all the rest ! ) .
30 According to one teacher in an urban school , ‘ there is no chalk , the blackboards are worn out , there are n't enough desks and the classrooms are not appropriate — some do n't have glass in the windows so in winter teaching is practically impossible ’ .
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