Example sentences of "they [vb mod] not have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A Mob of Netters may have a Boss armed with a club , they may not have a Boss armed with a net .
2 They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on .
3 The answer is that while they may not have the male 's full attention they do often get a good territory with plenty of food .
4 Sometimes they do n't know how to even they may not have the language for communicating feelings .
5 If you call they may not have the cash in the house .
6 if the government and public undermine the professional status of solicitors , they should not have the benefit of the Compensation Fund .
7 ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls .
8 This offers students an opportunity to test their knowledge and skills in the real world , at the same time as offering employers the chance to get to grips with a problem or task that they might not have the time or resources to tackle .
9 Few people would ever own a home if they could not have a mortgage .
10 After a pause for thought she told Dad that he must go and ask the Captain if he could let them have some cups and saucers and whatever else was available , even if they could not have the hall .
11 The difference between our position and that of the Labour party is that people accept that we would be prepared to use nuclear weapons and know that Labour Members would not be , so they would not have a deterrent .
12 Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted , when learners are of an age , for example , at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection , there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid .
13 In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) .
14 There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about .
15 Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies .
16 I can order someone to clean their boots , but not to eat the Eiffel Tower — they will not have the ability ( condition 2 ) .
17 ‘ At least they will not have the availability of their own aircraft .
18 They will not have the right to go to Industrial Tribunal for legal redress .
19 Although people are concerned about the democratic deficit , their biggest worry is that they will not have the power to remove unelected bureaucrats in Europe .
20 For if he should say ‘ I leave him this ’ or ‘ I commend ’ , because these are direct words , they can not have the place of a trust .
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