Example sentences of "not having " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 2 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 3 | Most people think not having it off is fidelity . |
| 4 | Police would shut the theatre and I 'm not having that . ’ |
| 5 | When you are tired out and upset with yourself for not having taken that extra piece of lift some miles back , there can be a tendency to become apathetic and not even try to prevent an accident . |
| 6 | Well , you 're not having my photo . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not having you sit home swapping the blues with Sister Gin , ’ Dionne had told Jay . |
| 8 | Other aspects of his answers are equally interesting : he admits to not having won any prizes or scholarships , having apparently settled for doing what was required — that , and no more ! |
| 9 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 10 | It means our not having our leave together . |
| 11 | The Japanese patenting of the Technics Class AA circuit was quite unknown to me , not having associated their advertisements for Class AA with anything I may have done until I read John Linsley Hood 's article in this journal for December 1989 . |
| 12 | PATIENTS needing non-emergency treatment will face hospital checks to see if their health authority will pay — and may be turned away if the doctor sending them is from a district not having a contract with that hospital . |
| 13 | Civil rights organisations have long criticised the league for not having a black head coach despite the fact that many of its greatest players have been black . |
| 14 | Crest Nicholson is the exception , not having much of a land bank and relying on its skills in land buying . |
| 15 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 16 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 17 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 18 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 19 | Nothing would be pleasanter than not having to make people redundant , not having to close a factory , but your job is to take the decisions when you have assessed the evidence as carefully as you can and not to shirk them . |
| 20 | Nothing would be pleasanter than not having to make people redundant , not having to close a factory , but your job is to take the decisions when you have assessed the evidence as carefully as you can and not to shirk them . |
| 21 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 22 | This loses a slight degree of sensitivity by not having a dropper shot but usually does the trick of holding the float stationary . |
| 23 | Not having seen Debord 's films ( he refused screenings at the ICA in London ) , Levin 's arguments are in one sense untestable ; nevertheless the article is not without difficulties . |
| 24 | Not only will her mother feel immense unhappiness about the action her daughter has taken but there is also the chance that her father may take unpleasant measures and throw harsh accusations at her for not having brought up her daughter properly . |
| 25 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 26 | On coming home , one , because of psychological stress and the consequences of not having resolved anything , preferred not to face the future — and therefore took an overdose . |
| 27 | Martin Brundle put the Brabham-Yamaha into 12th place on the grid — despite not having the benefit of special fuel for qualifying and a rev limit of 12,000rpm as opposed to the 13,000rpm-plus enjoyed by other V12 users . |
| 28 | Not having a television was odd — the product either of extreme deprivation or self-conscious intellectualism . |
| 29 | Where these is no need for a retained iron structure to accept enlarged loads and it is apparent that the metal members are in food condition , not having been subjected to detrimental modifications , the chief consideration in re-using the installation is to achieve an acceptable standard of fire resistance . |
| 30 | ‘ Not having any money is a very good formula for decorating , ’ Tim says , ‘ because you ca n't afford to make mistakes . ’ |