Example sentences of "not have [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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31 This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia .
32 During the Second World War , the nation did not have to contend with a significant fifth column or with the equivalent of Vichy collaborators .
33 He placed an old towel on the bathroom floor so that it would not get wet and he ensured that everything he needed was within reach so that he did not have to move from the spot and so drip water everywhere .
34 It is worth knowing that you do not have to type in the dollar signs for yourself .
35 The bird brought her food , dropping it into her mouth so that she should not have to stop for the nourishment she needed in order to have enough strength to carry on .
36 ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later .
37 First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates .
38 The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out .
39 We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images .
40 In other words , you do not have to look at every instrument continuously .
41 One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain .
42 He said ministers were guilty of ‘ an attitude of mind ’ which meant they think they did not have to bother about the public .
43 Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument .
44 I am glad that my own children are beyond primary age and will not have to suffer from the effects of this campaign , which looks increasingly like political dogma forced into the classroom .
45 The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends .
46 The class teacher 's general class management and discipline must be good so that the support teacher does not have to work in an atmosphere of excessive noise , nor for that matter in one of silence .
47 This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above .
48 Sure , then I would not have to stand in the rain talking to you ’ — PHIL DANAHER ( Ireland 's injured skipper ) talking to a radio commentator on the Athletic Park ( Wellington ) sidelines before Ireland lost the Second Test against New Zealand ( 59–6 ) .
49 Doctors do not have to stick to the schedule fee but can choose to bill the Medicare administration directly , rather than the patient .
50 Also , when considering development , it must be stressed that we do not have to depend on an infinite regress .
51 The law does make provision for a person on a child-abuse register to know and to challenge that decision but the information does not have to come through the school record .
52 The only way out may simply be to mandate a shorter planning period , an alternative the Japanese have demonstrated does not have to come at the expense of quality .
53 If , however , your basic pension is your only source of income , you will not have to worry as the amount you receive is below the income tax threshold .
54 That means Santander should not have to worry about the dud property loans plaguing other banks in the region .
55 Certainly Frank Graham , managing director of Kainos Software , a joint venture between ICL and Queens University , does not have to worry about the supply of graduates he gets .
56 The hon. Gentleman does not have to worry about the normal courtesy of staying to listen to the next speaker .
57 He is a Whip who receives about £35,000 a year or more and he does not have to worry about the daily necessities of life .
58 In the USA the absence of a strong socialist movement can to some degree be explained by ( a ) the ‘ newness ’ and apparent ‘ classlessness ’ of their social structures , especially the absence of an aristocracy ; ( b ) extensive social mobility ; ( c ) the multiplicity of ethnic cleavages ; and ( d ) the fact that universal suffrage arrived before large-scale industrialization , which meant that the working -class did not have to struggle for the franchise .
59 At present local NHS services do not have to pay for the care of individuals in Regional Secure Units or Special Hospitals ; they can shuffle off their responsibilities by claiming to have no suitable facilities and , in any case , such people receive little public support or sympathy .
60 Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years .
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