Example sentences of "they [vb past] not have " in BNC.
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1 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
2 | Sir : In your interesting article ( 30 September ) about the sale to the British Library by Lord Norwich ( for a sum left tantalisingly undisclosed ) of Evelyn Waugh 's letters to his late mother , Lady Diana Cooper , the library 's curator of modern literary manuscripts , a Ms Brown , was quoted as follows : I am sure that they did not have a physical affair . |
3 | They did not have to pay the usual £20 a tablet and both took one . |
4 | As the Labour dissidents in the Cabinet recognized , they did not have the power — they were a minority in the Cabinet as well as in the Commons — to avoid such a cut ; all that they could do was to ensure that it was not a Labour government which imposed it . |
5 | And all the rest of humanity which offended you , too : Jews , gipsies , the mentally handicapped , Poles , Russians — the Untermensch — — the subhuman , subhuman because they did not have blue eyes and blond hair , white skin or , that vaguest , and because most vague , most potent of myths , the right blood . |
6 | A pity they did not have TV to show us Christmas cattle grazing the Alpine pastures . |
7 | Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card . |
8 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
9 | They did not have long to wait . |
10 | They did not have to isolate zinc metal to do this but used the cementation process described on page 76 . |
11 | Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays , when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open . |
12 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
13 | They did not have such consistent and coherent schemata of ranked hierarchies or principle as are found in clandestine cells or academic seminars . |
14 | But the usual method was to take to the desert : they did not have to go far to become nomads . |
15 | Originally , the replay was scheduled for next Wednesday at Villa Park , but West Midlands Police objected , pointing out they did not have the manpower to handle a match of that magnitude on the eve of polling day . |
16 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
17 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
18 | For studying botany in the field they did not have far to go . |
19 | These included exemptions granted to the new water companies by the DoE , so that they did not have to comply with EC rules . |
20 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
21 | Such authoritative directives provide the subjects with reasons which they did not have before . |
22 | Once the directive is issued , individuals have reasons to take the action it requires which they did not have before , because now there is ground to expect that a convention will be formed . |
23 | Perhaps they did not have to ply their trade on the streets . |
24 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
25 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
26 | ‘ They did not have Argentinian money . ’ |
27 | At least this way they did not have far to fall . |
28 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
29 | Earlier workers failed ; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures . |
30 | For one thing , the British people at that stage of history were not regarded as a nation still reliant on divine approval for their acts , and for another , they did not have any ancient writings purporting to endow them with territorial rights . |