Example sentences of "not have to " in BNC.

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1 Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to .
2 According to Le Monde , all the candidates professed support for the regime of President Gnassinbe Eyadema , but had not had to be approved in advance by the ruling and sole legal party , the Rally of the Togolese People ( Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais — RPT ) .
3 Since July 1984 , death from alcoholism has not had to be reported to the coroner .
4 Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all .
5 Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all .
6 One of these beliefs may be racial superiority , but does not have to be .
7 The beauty of glass , he wrote , is this , that the surface does not have to be covered .
8 A traditional interior does not have to be incompatible with accommodating whole families , nor with providing meals ; yet an increasing number of old pub interiors are being sacrificed on the altar of the identikit eating house — whether the brewer 's concept be a downmarket steakhouse or part of a family restaurant chain masquerading as an independent local concern .
9 It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’
10 Until you are consistently getting the photos you want from inside the photographic sector , you will need to fly some distance beyond the turning point so that you do not have to be in a very steep turn or exactly positioned .
11 These grants however are discretionary — that means they do not have to be given so there will be variations from one district to another .
12 The board can also be used for incline/decline work with barbells and dumb-bells , and does not have to be regarded only as a piece of equipment for exercising the stomach .
13 Sometimes a doctor will send the certificate direct to the Registrar , but it is always necessary for whoever is arranging the funeral to attend at the Registrar 's office , this is usually a close family member but does not have to be .
14 Instructions can be left by those who wish to donate their bodies for research , although these do not have to be followed by the executors .
15 Community care grants do not have to be repaid .
16 They do not have to be paid back .
17 With 156 passengers representing a full trainload , and high-season tickets ( end of May — end of July ) selling at £320 , one does not have to be a brilliant mathematician to get a grasp of the kind of revenue being earned .
18 In fact , one does not have to be a committed deconstructionist to find a split between meaning and rhetoric in the work of recent theorists .
19 Mr Cash and his Friends of Bruges seem to want to fight a battle against federalism today which may not have to be fought at all .
20 The statement does not have to be true or relevant , of course — it just has to sound true and relevant .
21 The requirement for such pleasures is a matter of time and place , and it does not have to be Friday , Berlin or Strasburg , New York or San Francisco .
22 The computers can recognise thousands of words and , unlike older systems , do not have to be trained laboriously for each word .
23 As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book .
24 On the other hand , people do not have to be conscious of the system of production as such .
25 They have to make the system work , of course , but in order to do this , they do not have to be conscious of its nature .
26 Wearing a different one every time she went out would be only normal , particularly since a sari does not have to be washed as frequently as a dress because it is not worn next to the skin .
27 The filmed play does not have to be stagey , nor the filmed look uncinematic , if the adaptation is imaginatively done .
28 With more political troubles looming , the authorities will defend the link , at its present rate , ferociously ; since the market believes that , they may not have to .
29 It does not have to be a long passage , it may only be a verse .
30 Things do not have to be as they are .
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