Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | District nurses have always had the skills to treat acutely ill patients , but have not had nurses or aides under them . |
| 2 | Yet had he not had signs enough ? |
| 3 | But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way . |
| 4 | But Mr Gray is adamant that he has not had letters delivered to him since December 1990 . |
| 5 | Asia had not had visitors since October although some were arriving shortly : one had had to postpone a visit . |
| 6 | With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat . |
| 7 | HARD-UP Brighton have not paid their players for six weeks and backroom staff have not had wages for two months . |
| 8 | His letter to Mrs Thrale contained more detail , expressed with greater pungency , and it confirms the ‘ Dark Continent ’ feel of his experience : ‘ The Inhabitants , a very coarse tribe , ignorant of any language but earse [ sic ] , gathered so fast about us , that if we had not had Highlanders with us , they might have caused more alarm than pleasure . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , we do not have difficulties judging the colours of unfamiliar objects . |
| 10 | The extraction activities began at Druridge bay many years ago and my right hon. Friend does not have powers to initiate environmental assessments in such circumstances . |
| 11 | also do a compress on the file afterwards to save bandwith when sending to other unix-systems ( ie ‘ compress strach.gif.UU ’ — the new file will be called strach.gif.UU.Z ) ( do net send the compressed version to people with PC 's — they might not have programs to uncompress it ) |
| 12 | They may not have engines but today 's gliders are capable of some astonishing feats in the right hands … like those of ace aerobatic glider pilot Peter Mallinson . |
| 13 | It has a kind of backbone , in the form of the flexible rod , but it does not have jaws . |
| 14 | Many of the poorest households are headed by women farmers who do not have cattle , an important source of wealth . |
| 15 | We often get enquiries from companies which may not have resources to sponsor a tournament , but are anxious to become involved with women 's golf , so we suggest a player sponsorship . |
| 16 | Since the Second World War , the United Nations Statistical Office has done much to stimulate a global view of economic and social problems particularly in relation to human fertility but the responsibility for gathering the required information is left with individual countries , the majority of which do not have resources of trained manpower to accomplish the task themselves . |
| 17 | Why do we have just Alastair 's Letter from America : why not have letters from Moscow , from Paris , from Tokyo , from Peking . |
| 18 | And the reason he remains friends with his ex-wives and lovers is that he 's a man 's man , essentially , he 's not the sort of man who would not have women friends around him unless they had , in some way , been involved with him . |
| 19 | Looking her potential clients right in the eye , she would say : Women buy your products , why not have women help you publicise them — women understand women " . |
| 20 | You can not have women popping new people out of themselves just at random , when and where they want . |
| 21 | The idea of ‘ showbiz ’ or making money is regarded as a vulgar distraction ( most do not have families yet ) . |
| 22 | Why on earth should people here who do not have families pay for people who do have families ? |
| 23 | Atoms and molecules do not have consciousness : they do not have meanings and purposes which direct their behaviour . |
| 24 | He said the bus services in the town often did not have ramps needed to get a wheelchair on board , and long journeys by bus were often more uncomfortable than travelling by train . |
| 25 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 26 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 27 | The island did not have visitors . |
| 28 | Game show contestants do NOT have spots |
| 29 | You will be faced with one or more prompts , words followed by a colon , eg TRANSFER : which may not have responses already filled in . |
| 30 | People lower down the hierarchy can only make claims if the deceased did not have relatives who rank above them ; and a distinction is made between full and half-blood relatives , the former having prior claims ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 698–700 ) . |