Example sentences of "had not have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 2 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 3 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 4 | Although he himself had not had much formal education , he was literate , well read and articulate . |
| 5 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 6 | Of course , she reminded herself sternly , that was just proof that she had not had many sensual encounters . |
| 7 | Similarly Becker et al reported that if their ulcerative colitis patients had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations , 39% developed pouchitis v only 19% among those patients who had not had preoperative extraintestinal manifestations . |
| 8 | Paddy Mayne , however , had not had such good luck . |
| 9 | He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens . |
| 10 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 11 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 12 | She had not had one day 's illness during the whole time . |
| 13 | The stories of Manjiku she had heard on the island , when she was herself a girl , had not had happy endings : Manjiku continued to raid the inland waters for women , his hunger was not to be appeased , his need to have babies of his own still raged . |
| 14 | The publicity for The Silence of the Lambs produced not only a successful ‘ book of the film ’ by Thomas Harris , but a success for an earlier book of his which , although filmed , had not had any impact at the box-office . |
| 15 | Dement and Wolpert obtained REM-awakening reports from volunteers who had not had any fluid intake for at least twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | She had not had any idea of leaving her family in Iran . |
| 17 | Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime . |
| 18 | The labels which Darwin had attached to them did not say where the specimens were found ; he simply had not had any reason at the time to think that geography was important . |
| 19 | We dealt direct with BSI at Milton Keynes for whom it was also a new experience — they had not had any previous registrations from purley health-based organizations . |
| 20 | And she had asked him what would have happened to her if she had not had these good friends who had come to her aid and given her shelter , and when , in the form of an excuse , his answer had been , did n't she realize that he was distracted ? she had come back with , did n't he realize he had almost killed a man , that he was lucky he was n't in gaol now answering a charge of murder ? |
| 21 | This effect seems more important for Dipentum than for Salazopyrin resulting in significantly higher mucosal concentrations in the rectum and sigmoid in patients who had not had previous washout . |
| 22 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 23 | In September 1989 Chadli announced the postponement of local elections , originally scheduled for December , following complaints from the opposition parties that they had not had enough time to prepare for them . |
| 24 | According to a radio commentary on Aug. 7 , there were complaints from the opposition that they had not had enough time to campaign effectively , and instances were cited of bullying by MPRP election supervisors . |
| 25 | Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 . |
| 26 | ‘ He judged , did our physician , that the duchess had likely lost her maidenhead some two years earlier — and had not had carnal relations since . |
| 27 | ‘ Whilst it was the physician 's opinion that she had not had carnal relations for some two years , he could not say for certain . |
| 28 | Henry , taken aback , replied weakly that he had not had carnal relations with Anne 's mother . |
| 29 | If they had not had medical knowledge , their mental problems would have surfaced in some other form . |
| 30 | His ideas about blood transfusion are mad , but if someone had not had mad ideas on the subject in the first instance , would anyone have subsequently developed sane ideas ? |