Example sentences of "[not/n't] have such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paddy Mayne , however , had not had such good luck . |
| 2 | My other self — my Chinese self — has not had such understanding . |
| 3 | He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens . |
| 4 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 5 | He might have made a significant contribution to the public life of this country had he not been totally overshadowed by his illustrious father and had he not had such a burning desire to shine as bright or even brighter . |
| 6 | It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place . |
| 7 | I have not had such dreams since I was a boy . ’ |
| 8 | This does not have such a wide gape as the March Blues but is still relatively long in the shank . |
| 9 | You will find your Surveyor will not have such emotive issues on his mind when he inspects ! |
| 10 | They did not have such consistent and coherent schemata of ranked hierarchies or principle as are found in clandestine cells or academic seminars . |
| 11 | India does not have such a broad inventory of antelope as Africa , but it also has deer ( which sub-saharan Africa — oddly ! — does not ) . |
| 12 | My Land Rover is a 1983 SWB Series III County station wagon , I notice that the steering does not have such good self centring action as previous models I have owned and requires more steering on the road . |
| 13 | But many managers do not have such a background ; for them the need to think quantitatively is sometimes alien , or at least a strain . |
| 14 | It is interesting that the short-eared owl assemblages , which do not have such extreme degrees of skull breakage , have the lowest percentage of zygomatic preservation of all owl assemblages : both the skulls and isolated maxillae of the prey individuals are ‘ rounded off ’ in the pellets of this species , with all projecting processes destroyed . |
| 15 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 16 | In other fables the hare does not have such a noble character as in the Buddhist tale . |
| 17 | If we do not have such rights then , it may be asked , what do we have ? |
| 18 | Therefore it is often preferable to select materials that do not have such a tight-knit structure ; when appropriate , the teacher can extend the enquiries and discoveries with these along the lines of the structured material . |
| 19 | I will not have such wine sold under the de Chavigny label . ’ |
| 20 | So although ( as with most shopping ) country-dwellers may not have such a wide choice of credit arrangements as town-dwellers , there is no sign that the shopping centres they use are credit ‘ deserts ’ . |
| 21 | Studies with Down 's Syndrome children in particular have indicated that if these children are provided with enriched opportunities for developing pre-linguistic abilities , their understanding and production of language is enhanced compared to children who do not have such opportunities ( Bricker and Bricker 1973 ; McClean and Snyder 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Other species may not have such a long store of seed in the soil but would soon come back if left uncontrolled for a few years . |
| 23 | The people of West Belfast , because of decades of discrimination , do not have such an industrial background . |
| 24 | Currently , however , graduated assessment is being used more for formative purposes internal to a school where wrong decisions do not have such serious consequences . |
| 25 | That we do not have such an answer , it can be argued , is the fact that what follows , from the occurrence of the effect , is only that that circumstance or another occurred . |
| 26 | If the sceptic 's conclusion were true we could not have such knowledge ; so if the conclusion were true we would not be able to understand it . |
| 27 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 28 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 29 | Other discourse types do not have such overtly marked units ; but they may also be susceptible to the same representation . |
| 30 | If they do not have such a grounding , it will be difficult for them to pursue more advanced studies subsequently , especially in ‘ vertebrate ’ subjects such as mathematics and science ; also , a merely partial or incomplete exposure to such forms of knowledge sells them short in terms of human thought , indeed of the very concept of mind . |