Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not have a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I may not have a lot to give but what I 've got I 'll give to you |
2 | Sandy was already in the side , and I got talking to him again , Calero was struggling , and I said I might not have a bag for the Ryder Cup . |
3 | ‘ I 'll not have a babby in the place , I told them . |
4 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
5 | I 'd not have a child at my age . |
6 | And I will not have a saboteur in this house . ’ |
7 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
8 | Of course , you may not have a choice about where you live , particularly if you are a student in halls of residence , or a disabled person with special requirements . |
9 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
10 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
11 | He thought she might not have a heart , or tried to explain away her indifference by imagining she were made of obsidian through and through . |
12 | You might not have a problem |
13 | I mean so even something 's like this on the organic , you might not have a clue what polyethylene is or polypropylene or anything else , but you can read the pie chart and work out what what 's going on . |
14 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
15 | She would not have a claim for the loss of her child . |
16 | You can not have a week where you have n't got any appointments . |
17 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |
18 | And you can not have a situation where the the sort of almost the norm is , Any difficult decision the government is gon na have to take , there 'll be a dozen colleagues who say , not for us . |
19 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
20 | As I said we may not have a set up but if we have n't we 'll set one now . |
21 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
22 | We should not have a discount and rebate system . |
23 | I see no reason why we should not have a pension scheme connected to restructuring , but the aid is supposed to affect the very small farms directly . |
24 | We could not have a debate in Committee and the House deserves serious answers on this extremely important issue . |
25 | ‘ Well , yes , maybe , ’ said the same boy , ‘ but perhaps we need not have a teacher — perhaps we could have a proper person . ’ |
26 | Until they play against teams of the quality of Italy and Yugoslavia , we shall not have a clue . |
27 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
28 | If the Auxetophone had not existed , we would not have a record of Lord Northcliffe 's voice today . |
29 | ‘ The cause of this violence is the state security services … they are using certain organisations as a smokescreen so we can not have a majority in an election , ’ Mr Mandela told supporters . |
30 | But until we have a system that allows properly resourced public access to organisations such as UKIAS , we can not have a system that precludes people from seeking independent legal advice from private firms of solicitors . |