Example sentences of "not have [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People are entitled to follow statutes as they are ; they should not have to speculate as to Parliament 's intention . ’ |
| 2 | Publicity officer Elizabeth Cooper said the character does not have to sing or dance . |
| 3 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 4 | However , on three occasions I was witness to CAMRA members complaining loudly that they should not have to queue as long as non-members to get in , or that only CAMRA members should be allowed to attend . |
| 5 | Corbett caught phrases , ‘ See from Heaven the Judge descendeth ’ and , turning to look at the coffin , vowed that the young man awaiting burial would not have to wait until Judgement Day for justice . |
| 6 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 7 | But they do not have to demonstrate that there will be gains . |
| 8 | He did not have to suppose that an animal could foresee the consequences of its behaviour ; still less did he have to suppose that an animal could imagine what it would do in its partner 's place . |
| 9 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 10 | The head of the Direction is a civil servant and a ministerial appointment , but he does not have to leave when the Minister changes . |
| 11 | The cream need only be lightly massaged with the finger tips either once or twice a day and the manufacturers stress that you do not have to knead or use a special applicator . |
| 12 | Elizabeth was always delightful with pleasantly smiling people who wanted to be pleasant — and it is reposeful when one does not have to talk or understand their language . |
| 13 | I would contend that it is a major strength of the British legislation that the MMC did not have to decide whether the firms had ‘ really colluded ’ . |
| 14 | We do not have to decide whether to keep in bulk or alternatively to sample , particular instance papers which electronic data handling techniques now make potentially useful to the historian in ways that they simply were not before . |
| 15 | The traffic does not have to stop until you have a foot on the crossing . |
| 16 | This means that the board will not have to reprocess as soon as in the past ‘ or ever at all ’ . |
| 17 | There at least they would not have to see and hear the effect of the blows as clearly as those in front . |
| 18 | However , the town 's art gallery and museum will not have to close as previously suggested . |
| 19 | ( 3,500 calories is equal to 1lb of fat — 1lb every week that you would not have to lose if you gave up sugar . ) |
| 20 | The inspectors did not have to show that the evidence was required to stop some identifiable future crime . |
| 21 | The prosecution does not have to show that the weapon of offence was intended to be used during the burglary . |
| 22 | Marlboro , for instance , does not have to show or even mention somebody smoking cigarettes — it just has to show a cowboy . |
| 23 | You did not have to rush and worry that it would have disappeared by the time you caught up with it . |
| 24 | Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays , when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open . |
| 25 | Even the people who lived on farms did not have to work like she did . |
| 26 | If , say , my left breast becomes enlarged , I do not have to contemplate whether it is a result of taking illegal substances . |
| 27 | An importer will not have to prove that an imported product is not made under equivalent standards to those of the member state . |
| 28 | If good faith requires only that the holder have no actual notice that the goods have not been shipped or do not correspond to the bill of lading description , the holder does not have to prove that it give value or consideration , as it must under the Pomerene Act . |
| 29 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 30 | Mocking supporters of legalisation writing in ‘ sophisticated newspapers ’ , the minister said perhaps they believed that suppliers , unmolested by the police , would , ‘ as an act of Christian charity ’ reduce their prices so their customers did not have to steal and prostitute themselves . |