Example sentences of "not have a " in BNC.

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31 Colombia does not have a consumption problem comparable to that of the US or Europe .
32 Until they play against teams of the quality of Italy and Yugoslavia , we shall not have a clue .
33 However , it appears that in sensitive operations where the military does not have a ‘ need to know ’ MI5 and BfV 's Section 7 , which is active against terrorist groups , have their own direct channels of communication .
34 There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about .
35 Those with a recent interest in politics , who found the election interesting but did not have a general interest in politics at other times , gave PEBs high ratings for usefulness on leaders , issues , and voting choice .
36 Since we do not have a year-long content analysis of the media we can not investigate the influence of a changing media consensus but we can analyse the differential effects of different elements of the media .
37 So , before you can go any further you must ensure that , if NI contributions are due and your employees do not have a number , they obtain one .
38 If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit .
39 The SDP did not and could not have a good war .
40 Ramsey did not see why it should not have a wider interest as in Henson 's day .
41 It does not have a purpose in that sense of purpose .
42 The government managed to make its legislation ‘ stick ’ , in contrast to Mr Heath 's experience , and has refuted the old ‘ liberal ’ view that the courts did not have a useful role to play in industrial relations .
43 British Prime Ministers do not have a department to administer .
44 Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote .
45 They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened .
46 The land of a descent group is said to belong to the group as a whole and an outsider to the group does not have a right to cultivation inside the group territory when a member of the gens does so already .
47 Of course , in such cases , rulers tend to have different life-styles from their subjects , but what is at issue is that they do not have a privileged access to property , especially to the means of production , an essential element of Marx 's and Engels 's definition of a class .
48 The hotel is elegant and modern , but it does not have a bolted-on section where you can buy spoons with ‘ Present from Geysir ’ written on them .
49 For some , the reason is one of choice ; they do not have a job or social links that tie them to a 24 hour day .
50 The villagers are stunned into silence and turn to face me , centre stage now , but I do not have a speaking part .
51 Managing director Kevin Eakin said that while the half percentage point cut would not have a dramatic effect , it was part of a series of cuts all in the right direction .
52 We do not have a lot of time left in which to act …
53 However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child .
54 Lots of hairdressers now have accessory counters so why not have a rummage ?
55 You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten .
56 Yet most practices still do not have a computer , and the vast majority will start working the contract without the information technology expertise to manage it . ’
57 The lingering conventional truths — that the Czech economy would be strong enough to cushion dissent , that the opposition does not have a sufficiently coherent voice — already look thin .
58 The lingering conventional truths — that the Czech economy would be strong enough to cushion dissent , that the opposition does not have a sufficiently coherent voice — already look thin .
59 Unfortunately , it does not have a lot of software support , and the price — about £750 — puts it beyond most people 's reach .
60 THE Tottenham Hotspur board confirmed yesterday that Terry Venables does not have a large budget for new players because of the high cost of bringing the ground up to the latest safety standards .
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