Example sentences of "not have [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Office research and statistics department is excellent and produces very good figures , but unfortunately we do not have on record the figures for 12 centuries ago . |
| 2 | Yet , in truth , he did not have to play-act . |
| 3 | The government is now worried that its industry will suffer from unfair competition if other EEC countries do not have to fork out for the extra equipment necessary to reduce emissions . |
| 4 | We should not have to anguish over what needs to be done to stop the physical and mental havoc which such racists wreak on black people . |
| 5 | Probably if you 're having a new home built or something like that you may not have to recourse to those because while you 're having , you 're having your home built you can say to the electrician , alright I want X number of power points here . |
| 6 | God never made a woman that one could not have for money . ) |
| 7 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 8 | Therefore when he refers to the sphere of circulation here he does not have in mind market relations , but rather a system of planned production and exchange , which may or may not have included some form of monetary accounting . |
| 9 | Since , as Leech and Short ( 1981 ) point out , every writer ( and speaker ) necessarily makes choices of expression , there is , on this view , no neutral style.6 However , in contrast with Leech and Short ( 1981 : 19 – 24 , 38 ) , I do not have in mind simply those choices made from amongst the modes of expression made possible by the language . |
| 10 | I have to count on the symbol itself as providing the main evidence for meaning and , of course , as providing the means for creating schematic knowledge which 1 do not have in advance . |
| 11 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 12 | That can not be bypassed , because one can not have in Community membership countries that do not follow the concepts of democracy and human rights . |
| 13 | But I ca n't see that I ca n't her not having for Christmas . |
| 14 | On the cluster erm not having in fact had any erm work on this type of thing before I did n't realise that holding a paper could close you down and in fact without moving my feet I was n't getting movement I was just static and with no use of the hands you were to express yourself sufficiently . |
| 15 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 16 | you did n't have to bit on my knee |
| 17 | I 'm not cared I 'm not a lass , I do n't have to make-up on them . |
| 18 | ‘ But , really , ’ she assured him , ‘ you do n't have to humour me . ’ |
| 19 | You do n't have to concrete them in , just put them in sand like you did before . |
| 20 | And , because of sponsorship , you do n't have to fork out the whole £60 yourself . |
| 21 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 22 | we do n't have to sort of , ai n't got ta take really too much muck |
| 23 | narrow foot yeah it 's like you do n't have to sort of ones our Adie got is the best |
| 24 | Do n't have to sort of spread them out like that you should toes |
| 25 | do n't have on prescription now . |
| 26 | We 've not had any today ha we did n't have on till later on today have we ? |
| 27 | Oh because we , we do n't , we do n't have at school , we have Pepsi in our machine . |
| 28 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 29 | Sleep was something he obviously did n't have under control . |
| 30 | And what she did n't have in grit she most certainly had in ethics . |