Example sentences of "have [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 2 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 3 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 4 | The council has not had to raise funds to make those payments and unscrambling the transactions would , he said , lead to ratepayers losing out . |
| 5 | ‘ So far he has not had the opportunity to appear to us a flexible and strong politician . ’ |
| 6 | Worse for them , whether they go on backing Mr Gorbachev or opt for some other tough guy , the rattle of gunfire has not had the intended effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She looked at Mr Browning , startled , and he drew a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood away tenderly , saying , ‘ She tells me it is nothing , nothing she has not had before . ’ |
| 9 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 10 | Offered a settlement that would have retrieved half the gold , Moreira sternly refused — and has not had any of it back . |
| 11 | Dosing is continued while there is steady improvement and the patient does not experience a symptom he has not had before . |
| 12 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 13 | Even in these days of permissiveness , it may be that the one party has not had , or has been denied , the opportunity of discovering the anatomical characteristics of the other . |
| 14 | It 's the only one of us has not had a drink this hot day . ’ |
| 15 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 16 | However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east . |
| 17 | The fact that Teacher Placement Service has not had supply cover , although causing short term difficulties has improved the long term chances of success , as such additional external government funding would be temporary in nature . |
| 18 | This colony probably started as an offshoot of Glynleigh , being only about a mile away , and has not had more than eight nests . |
| 19 | Now the specialists have had to stand on their heads , because previous transfusions are known to be very helpful in making a kidney ‘ take ’ ; the modern kidney doctor will not usually accept for transplant a patient who has not had a transfusion . |
| 20 | But since the X-ray satellite Ariel VI , it has not had a national project . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And ‘ if the tam batting second has not had the opportunity to complete the required number of overs their target score will be the runs scored by the team batting first from their equivalent number of highest scoring overs . ’ |
| 23 | The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist . |
| 24 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 25 | However , the Scottish Office has not had it all its own way . |
| 26 | He quotes Thomas Jefferson : ‘ This country needs a rebellion every 20 years ' , and the USA has not had one for 200 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 28 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 29 | Atkinson said : ‘ He has not had the best of seasons so far and probably felt he was being frozen out , but He came back and had his best game for us against Arsenal . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Colin has not had the best of luck with injuries but technically he is an excellent player . |