Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those patients who had not had liver biopsies had had significantly abnormal liver function tests and/or ultrasound or isotopic scanning evidence of liver disease . |
| 2 | But then she has always had money — she has never not had money . |
| 3 | She had not had money for clothes , and neither the time nor the inclination to experiment with make-up and other items of fashion . |
| 4 | However , you are bound to discover for yourself many species that I have not had space to describe , as it is always interesting to experiment for yourself . |
| 5 | Sixty eight ( 38% ) had not had contact with social or voluntary services in the previous three years ; 51 ( 28% ) had been advised to contact social services ‘ if the need arose ’ ; and only 62 ( 34% ) people had received regular visits from social services personnel ( social workers , occupational therapists , etc ) . |
| 6 | He claimed he and Farrow had not had sex since the birth of their biological son Satchel , aged five . |
| 7 | She was considerably upset by this and amongst protestations of sexual continence said that , apart from this young man , she had not had intercourse with anybody else since her husband , who had left her ten months previously . |
| 8 | Have they not had chicken pox ? |
| 9 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 10 | In contrast to the learned shepherd , the flock has not had occasion either to familiarise itself with the evidence in question or to confront the inconsistencies between scriptural accounts and the actual historical backdrop . |
| 11 | Have they not had pressure from people that would |
| 12 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |
| 13 | In March 1991 , a bank as unpaid mortgagee had taken possession of the debtor 's business premises and he had not had access to them since that date . |
| 14 | He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn . |
| 15 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 16 | On Feb. 26 the Chief Prosecutor announced that charges of diversion of public funds against Honecker were being dropped since he had not had access to an account holding money paid by West Germany to buy the freedom of East German political prisoners . |
| 17 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 18 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 19 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 20 | If you have not had time to object , contact the planning officer and ask for extra time . |
| 21 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 22 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 23 | If Soviet historians have not had time to enter party and state archives , why not publish authoritative foreigners — Isaac Deutscher , E H Carr and Davies himself ? |
| 24 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 25 | Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself . |
| 26 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 27 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 28 | Not really , perhaps such beings only recently ( less than 500 years ago ) developed radio communications or space vehicles , and the radio signals or vehicles have not had time to spread very far . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've not had time to consider … had other plans … not sure … ’ |
| 30 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |