Example sentences of "have [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 2 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 3 | Mr Gossip jumped left at his fences which mystified Henderson , who said he has not done it before . |
| 4 | The government has not done much to restrain it . |
| 5 | Sir Bernard 's many friends will fear he has not done himself justice . |
| 6 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Every baptised German who has not done this and who pays income tax must also pay the additional church tax . |
| 8 | You ca n't please everyone all the time , but the Catholic church has not done too badly , over the years . |
| 9 | Nor is the exposure of a hitherto unknown spy by a defector well received because it shows that the counter-intelligence section responsible has not done its job properly and gives those who are controlling the defector the opportunity to boast about their success . |
| 10 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
| 11 | An objection to liability in this case , advanced by Williams , is that the doctor who fails to treat has not done something ; he has merely failed to act , and an omission can not amount to an abetment . |
| 12 | He has not done a lot of opera but thinks that it is just the way things worked out . |
| 13 | The illustrations must do something that the text has not done or that the text can not do : ‘ You must never illustrate exactly what is written . |
| 14 | One official labelled cattle trespass ‘ the curse of the district ’ , and a mudaliyar complained that ‘ at present there is not a single cow , or a buffalo which has not done more damage to the community at large , than double her worth to the owner . ’ |
| 15 | He dismisses the widespread belief among manufacturers that the Government has not done enough to help them , with : ‘ Oh well , that 's human nature , is n't it ? ’ |
| 16 | We are grateful to all our contributors for their articles and for their forbearance when the Editor has not done with them what they were expecting ! |
| 17 | He has not done so . ’ |
| 18 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
| 19 | ‘ The package will get the headlines because he has not done anything nasty . ’ |
| 20 | But her solicitor said : ‘ Admitting this has not done any good . |
| 21 | MARRIAGE to beautiful Somalian model Iman , has inspired David Bowie to take up sculpting again — something he has not done since he was unknown art student David Jones . |
| 22 | Tandy Corp , Forth Worth , Texas , has caused many eyebrows to be raised with its plan to spin off its manufacturing operations to shareholders as a new company , TE Electronics Inc , and the move has not done the parent 's credit rating any good either . |
| 23 | Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy . |
| 24 | But England has not done well in test matches lately — partly , the experts say , because neither one-day nor three-day games are a proper preparation for five-day tests . |
| 25 | What he has not done is to spell out his policy on the central economic issue : how does he intend to cut the budget deficit without raising taxes ? |
| 26 | In favour of rigorism , there is the apparent reasonableness of saying that if one fails to do all one can to promote happiness ( and , in particular , to reduce suffering ) one has not done the best one could do , and that must be wrong . |
| 27 | According to one informed source , Microsoft Corp partner Insignia Solutions Inc , has not done a stroke of work on its ‘ WABI-like ’ SoftPC native Windows-on-Unix solution ( UX No 434 ) because it 's been too busy trying to fix NT . |
| 28 | That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA . |
| 29 | The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years . |
| 30 | The government has not done anything about smoking . |