Example sentences of "they [vb mod] not have a [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 | ‘ We 'd been told that they might not have a lot of clothes , but they arrived with these huge suitcases , ’ Michelle recalls . |
| 4 | Few people would ever own a home if they could not have a mortgage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |