Example sentences of "[indef pn] do not have [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly , social life and entertainment , or the lack of it , faded into insignificance for me , with the arrival from North Africa of a mysterious and rather unsubtly coded letter which one did not have to be a cryptanalyst to interpret as evidence that Leslie was coming home . |
| 2 | ’ One did not have to be a political commentator or a student of politics to know that Hitler was not just a psychopath . |
| 3 | With 156 passengers representing a full trainload , and high-season tickets ( end of May — end of July ) selling at £320 , one does not have to be a brilliant mathematician to get a grasp of the kind of revenue being earned . |
| 4 | In fact , one does not have to be a committed deconstructionist to find a split between meaning and rhetoric in the work of recent theorists . |
| 5 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 6 | To be a ‘ subversive ’ therefore one does not have to be in breach of the law . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , one does not have to be a hedonist to agree that a person is somehow impoverished by living too much for the future or for other people , and ‘ Be aware ’ can show us why . |
| 8 | One does not have to be a missionary in a remote situation to become aware of the communication barriers . |
| 9 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 10 | One does not have to be a pessimist to realize that no necessity attaches to the contours that any possible postmodernism might take . |
| 11 | One does not have to be a statistician to discount these results . |
| 12 | One does n't have to be a reader of Shakespeare to know that there are many enduring human characteristics , but when it comes to work , and the part it plays in individuals ' lives , what they bring to it , and their expectations of it , one sees an enormous rate of change . |