Example sentences of "not have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 2 | Languages which have morphological resources for expressing a certain category such as number , tense , or gender , have to express these categories regularly ; those which do not have morphological resources for expressing the same categories do not have to express them except when they are felt to be relevant . |
| 3 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , he did not have certain items of information such as the history of the Star pistol found at the cottage . |
| 5 | What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts . |
| 6 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 7 | We do not have great writers any more , men to whom we can turn for enlightenment and discussion of the most engaging problems . |
| 8 | I do not have five roubles , therefore I can not go to the loo . |
| 9 | ? A dog that does not have four legs is not necessarily defective . |
| 10 | We may talk of such categories as ‘ professionals ’ , ‘ managers ’ , ‘ technicians ’ , ‘ foremen ’ and ‘ manual workers ’ ( and sub-gradations of these ) , but we have to recognise that these terms do not have homogeneous referents , and the degree of real social distinctiveness and cohesiveness of these categories may be highly variable . |
| 11 | Increasing recognition of how oppositional images get incorporated and redefined in ‘ mainstream ’ fashion , coupled with an awareness that images do not have fixed meanings and can be subverted , has led to a re-evaluation of traditionally ‘ erotic ’ clothes . |
| 12 | The University of Reading 's survey comments that most small farmers ‘ could not even subsist on these farms if they did not have outside sources of income . |
| 13 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 14 | ( The police will not have similar problems because their output is not limited . |
| 15 | First , ‘ most authorities do not have systematic arrangements for regularly collecting and monitoring curricular information from their schools ’ . |
| 16 | Unfortunately most current systems do not have systematic aids for checking this , though the KMS hypertext system automatically marks the buttons that have been selected . |
| 17 | A toy should not have sharp edges or be small enough to be swallowed or jammed in the throat , neither should it break or tear into dangerous pieces . |
| 18 | Check all toys carefully to make sure that they do not have sharp edges . |
| 19 | There were few subjects on which he did not have firm opinions . |
| 20 | We shall certainly try to monitor it with the best precision that we can but , at this stage , we do not have firm figures . |
| 21 | At the same time , public opinion may qualify and grade the measure of its ‘ realism ’ , and some genres may be more ‘ verisimilar ’ than others : ‘ In other words , the law of certain genres coincides with public opinion ; but the latter does not have absolute rights . ’ |
| 22 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
| 23 | A well-designed communication structure can do much to minimize this by recognizing the fact that words do not have specific meanings until they are defined for a particular purpose . |
| 24 | The characters in the lists do not have specific weapons . |
| 25 | Each executive selected an episode that he wished to redesign so that it would not have negative consequences . |
| 26 | The swordfish does not have pelvic fins . |
| 27 | The Germans use this model precisely because of their tradition of promoting people in their specialties , especially in research and engineering ; if they did not have available commands in near-independent subsidiaries to put people in , they would have little opportunity to train and test their most promising professionals . |
| 28 | This may not be possible if the vendors do not have available funds until after receiving the sale proceeds , in which case a risk premium needs to be built into the fee structure because of contingent nature of the job . |
| 29 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 30 | It is extremely difficult to believe that this cult did not have political overtones . |