Example sentences of "we [adv] do not have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 2 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 3 | May , 1982 , ‘ The Argentinian air force has the latest attack aircraft and missiles , which we just do not have . |
| 4 | On Tuesdays we may have a school football match but we usually do not have one . |
| 5 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 6 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 7 | IT COMES AS A SHOCK to some people to learn that we still do not have definite answers to many of the most obvious questions about animals . |
| 8 | Yet as Brown ( 1979 ) points out we still do not have coherent model of the neural bases of language . |
| 9 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 10 | With the features introduced so far , we still do not have complete distinctiveness for all vowels : and , for example , are identical in feature specification so far , as are and , and , and . |
| 11 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 12 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 13 | If to be in crisis means that the whole system is on the brink of total collapse or explosion , then we probably do not have a crisis . |
| 14 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 15 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 16 | We simply do not have the sums of money being asked . ’ |
| 17 | We simply do not have any clear conception of what form a transition from capitalism to socialism would take , above all because there is no convincing historical experience of such a transition . |
| 18 | We simply do not have the structures or the resources to give proper pastoral care to clergy wives . |
| 19 | Without studies of that kind , which we certainly do not have , it is proper to remain agnostic on the question of whether regional variations are of any significance . |