Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] have some " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Why , asked the Prince , was Britain the only country in Europe that did not have some kind of community service . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind the size of the KGB 's foreign operations it would be surprising if it did not have some successes . |
| 3 | It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react . |
| 4 | Considering that the body depends on sensitive electrical interactions to function , it would be surprising if these diverse electrical frequencies did not have some effect on us , whether detrimental or otherwise . |
| 5 | Well might Walsingham remark that there was scarcely a woman in England who did not have some household possession from the sack of Caen , the seizure of Calais , and other English successes in France . |
| 6 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 7 | In other words , although the rule is broken all the time , it is broken deliberately for particular effects , which we would not perceive if the rule did not have some psychological reality . |
| 8 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 9 | Nowadays , very few excavations take place on sites that do not have some form of threat of damage or destruction , because enough funds are not available to finance a full research excavation on every possible site . |
| 10 | There are few community councils in Wales which do not have some area of countryside or open ground where nature flourishes , be it inland or on the coast . |
| 11 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 12 | We were adamant from the beginning that we could n't retain the breadth of the remit if we did n't have some security of income.1 That we would enable us to resist the temptation , either from shareholders or advertisers , to turn the channel into a sort of a yuppie channel . |
| 13 | In saying that go over , erm obviously I 'm all for that , but in terms of sort of holding on to what they 're doing I just had written down to mention that you know , we did n't have some sort of mechanism to , to share you know |
| 14 | no I did n't have some toast |
| 15 | I do n't have some dreadful lust to kill my fellow man . |
| 16 | I do n't have some nice safe little civil service job with pensions and … and things . |
| 17 | I hardly feel , sir , that erm erm you do n't have some influence on your salaries and the other directors ' salaries , I 've heard a lot of directors and chairmen say that they have no influence on their own salaries . |
| 18 | There are n't many British Cheeses which do n't have some colouring added to them . |
| 19 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 20 | The main reason why it is not completely random is that one can not be sure in every list that the n th name does not have some significance . |
| 21 | One person 's point of believing may be another person 's point of doubting ; there is no one who does not have some faith . |
| 22 | That does not mean to say that the bottom line in the FRS 3 p&l account does not have some value : but I would argue that the figure should be called ‘ net income ’ rather than ‘ earnings ’ . |
| 23 | As it is now hard to think of any disorder , physical or mental , that does not have some element of the psychological in its origin , we can , I hope , reject the pejorative meaning . |
| 24 | Of the vast multitude of varieties that are available , old and new , and despite the astonishing achievements of the modern breeders and growers , not many varieties match up to all or even most of the desirable specifications , and it is difficult , nay , impossible to name one that does not have some fault somewhere . |
| 25 | In such discourses , what can be specified about the sender is often justifiably taken for granted , because the student has experience of these discourse types in his or her own language : in the modern world we are unlikely to come across a student who does not have some idea of the nature of news or fiction , and the sort of relationship entered into with the senders . |
| 26 | I wish he 'd get his teeth seen to ; do they have special police dentists or do they have to go to the ones everybody else goes to and hope the dentist does n't have some … have some grudge … some grudge against … ? |