Example sentences of "[not/n't] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 2 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 3 | Equally , the lack of pressure for land has meant , in contrast to LDDC , that MDC has not had to decide whether existing firms should be forced to quit the area . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's family and favourites have gone , but their places have generally been taken by the prominent figures of the new regime — some of whom have not had to move far . |
| 5 | As it turned out , George had not had to stir up the matter of Miss Tuckey himself . |
| 6 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 7 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 8 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 9 | I wish I 'd not had to lie to my poor Norman , but he did n't question my story about a long-lost godchild and assured me he had no need of my money . |
| 10 | ‘ This is one of the biggest road construction contracts ever undertaken in Northern Ireland and we have not had to go overseas because we have the local skills to do it . ’ |
| 11 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 12 | Had I not had to do that , to meet the high spending levels of local authorities , that £50 million could have been available for housing . |
| 13 | He was however grateful to her for curing him ; he had not had to use the purple crystals again . |
| 14 | Glad she had avoided meeting Mrs Farraday ( nee Corbett ) , whom she imagined as some Gorgon straight from the pages of George Eliot , Penny swung down the drive , wishing she had not had to assume a double load of exercise books to avoid her . |
| 15 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 16 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 17 | The council has not had to raise funds to make those payments and unscrambling the transactions would , he said , lead to ratepayers losing out . |
| 18 | If a meeting with that strange character was important , the usurper could have summoned Dunbar to himself , not had to ride eighty miles to see him . |
| 19 | The familiar comment of ‘ Darling , what I could have achieved had 1 not had to consider my pension and the mortgage ’ reflects this conflict . |
| 20 | But Pompey have not had to fend off a serious inquiry about him for two years . |
| 21 | Nearly a quarter of those in nursing homes had not had to pay towards the cost of living there compared with only 7 per cent of those in old people 's homes . |
| 22 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 23 | Economic Man , seeing two boxes of chocolates , of which one is cheaper because the manufacturer has not had to pay for consequential damage to some third party , would choose that cheaper box . |
| 24 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 25 | British dealers , who have also enjoyed a profitable year , have not had to make the panic payments . |
| 26 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 27 | That he had not had to think about paying a bill or buying food for God knows how long . |
| 28 | Worried , Wilson confided in Mrs Browning that she feared Ellen might not have received her letter , the posts being so very variable , and was instructed to write again and have it sent with a reply paid , a system she was assured was possible if expensive . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that other offers will be submitted , as the sale of the site Will not have received publicity . |
| 30 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |