Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [not/n't] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 2 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 3 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 4 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 5 | So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so . |
| 6 | And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do . |
| 7 | The vast majority of defendants , even politically motivated ones , have not the energy , and may not have the means , to launch long and expensive appeals . |
| 8 | Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank ’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops . |
| 9 | It is also worth noting that in Edinburgh Scottish English , phonologically prominent syllables are typically uttered with raised or high pitch and need not have the type of pitch movement associated with phonological prominence in descriptions of standard southern English ( cf. |
| 10 | He blamed Rose , and would n't have a word said against William . |
| 11 | I asked him if he would teach John music , and explained the difficulty , as John wanted to know too soon and would not have the patience to practise . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman made a statement in the House about a fast track procedure under which some applicants would be sifted out immediately and would not have the right of appeal — at least not the right of audience in an appeal or representation in an appeal . |
| 13 | The teacher will be unprepared for change and will not have the flexibility needed to adapt to new situations … |
| 14 | They insist that planners do not and can not have the scale and quality of knowledge and foresight to regulate prices and output effectively . |
| 15 | ‘ From a practical point of view , they are still dependent on their company for career progression and can not have the independence an external auditor would have nor would they necessarily have the technical expertise if they conducted a statutory audit only once a year . ’ |