Example sentences of "not have a " in BNC.

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61 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 .
62 Boxing White Hopes like Cooney do not have a prayer of toppling Tyson .
63 Boxing White Hopes like Cooney do not have a prayer of toppling Tyson .
64 Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card .
65 In strategic terms the England manager , who does not have a Gerson or Pele to bail his team out of the trouble caused by such indiscretions , was right , but if you drive the idiosyncrasies out of football altogether what is left can be grey indeed , which is what one finds a little disconcerting about the present Brazilian side .
66 We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again .
67 Fulke Walwyn , who kept on winning it , has by far the best record but he does not have a runner this year .
68 It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well .
69 We did not have a definite identification until late yesterday afternoon , in any case . ’
70 Pipe tiny balls of pastry onto the prepared baking sheets , or not more than ½ × 5ml/tsp mounds if you do not have a piping bag .
71 It is a rare Scotsman who does not have a tale or two about a favourite pet or a loved relative who has been felled by their fangs .
72 We do not know , for instance , whether thought might not have a purely material basis , instead of being the unexplained property of an immaterial substance .
73 In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently .
74 The health service does not have a monopoly in cleaning , catering and laundry skills in the same way that it does in the skills required to treat sick people .
75 As I did not have a woman companion , they tended to ignore me , but I called to one and bought a little bouquet to put in my hotel bedroom 's tooth-glass .
76 If there is detrital material in the stalagmite , such as clay and limestone , it will not have a zero TL signal at the time of the stalagmite 's formation .
77 This book does not have a polemical purpose , but the author has not been able to escape the conclusion that at least some of the customs and habits of mind of the earlier period tended to induce healthier attitudes , both among those on their death-beds and those left behind to mourn .
78 D.G. Rossetti did not have a Christian conscience , but he was not immune from a sense of guilt about the long deferment of his marriage to his model and mistress , Lizzy Siddal .
79 However , the major question raised by section I(2) of the Criminal Damage Act is why English law does not have a general offence of endangerment .
80 So far everything had gone our way , but it was hard to believe that the wily old campaigner would not have a few more tricks up his sleeve .
81 The limits of this approach are extremely simple : Rose of Lima did not have a problem .
82 Rose of Lima did not have a problem .
83 There is no reason why you should not have a weekly reward for remaining the same weight , at least for a few months after you have attained your ideal shape .
84 There are so many others who do not have a portion of the things we have , in our state .
85 And without the SDLP , the Assembly does not have a very bright future .
86 I do not have a straw that is long enough to take a drink with him .
87 Church funds also came to be used in special cases to buy the emancipation of Christian slaves , but the church did not have a general programme for the abolition of slavery .
88 The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset .
89 We do not have a very good sense of smell , and as a result we are often tactless when handling animals .
90 All the same Salah Muhammad did not have a clear run .
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