Example sentences of "[not/n't] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no one else in the world with your personality , May this book be a link between people , part of a chain which does not have a beginning or an end but only forms its beautiful pattern as each piece relates to the others . |
| 2 | He did not have a karma ; he was not locked onto an inescapable railway line to a predetermined destiny — an idea that has frozen the will of millions in the East . |
| 3 | A ‘ double whammy ’ does not have a boxing origin . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 5 | Those which do not have a lake view overlook local side streets . |
| 6 | Essex have been practising outdoors at Chelmsford since April 1 , which gives them a week 's start on Durham , although they did not have a winter tour . |
| 7 | The Home Office sent a detective to report on the movements of ‘ the French people ’ — they were assumed to be foreign as they did not have a Somerset accent . |
| 8 | He was always punctilious ; she did not have a diary ; today must be the day she had thought so far off when he had proposed meeting Kit and Astrid in Paris and then taking all of them out for lunch . |
| 9 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 10 | The table is built up by calculating p(0) , and hence the probability that any given address would not have a home record allocated to it . |
| 11 | But he may not have a home to go back to . |
| 12 | He had been fond of his uncle , Thomas had been a bluff hearty man but unfortunately he did not have a head for business . |
| 13 | Those whose gifts and tastes lie in a certain direction — people who do not have a head for mathematics — may well have been influenced by this in an early career choice . |
| 14 | Thus if the confidential information was published in full detail then the initial recipient would not have a head start . |
| 15 | It also must be remembered er that the transport links to Easingwold would not be good enough to support that level of development , it does not have a rail station and it does it , and the A nineteen is only a single carriageway road , and would need ld need isagree with Mr Jewitt upon re 1 |
| 16 | On Feb. 13 Gregorio Rosal of the rebel communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) announced that the NPA did not have a candidate to support in the elections and that its members would not be taking part . |
| 17 | Although pumping out water can bring problems if aquifers do not have a chance to recharge , groundwater is such an enormous resource that it would be unthinkable for us to stop using it . |
| 18 | SIZEWELL public inquiry will not have a chance to consider what everybody agrees is the most crucial safety issue affecting the design for the proposed pressurised-water reactor . |
| 19 | They had gone ahead of their Australian guide and he did not have a chance to warn them the creature — usually docile — lived there . |
| 20 | In those circumstances , teachers do not have a chance of achieving the level of examination success that might be achieved in more favourable teaching conditions . |
| 21 | I am sorry that we did not manage to pin the overspending of Labour authorities on those authorities and that we did not have a chance to repeat across the country the electoral triumphs that we enjoyed in Trafford , Southend , Brent , Hillingdon , Ealing , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 22 | In general , parents will not have a chance to see the specimen paper until June 14 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But if he decides to go the Hollywood route , he may not have a choice . |
| 25 | For this reason the House of Lords held that in certain cases an applicant for a declaration or an injunction should not have a choice of procedure : in certain cases it would be and ‘ abuse of the process of the court ’ for an applicant seeking a declaration or an injunction to proceed otherwise than by way of an AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 26 | You did not have a choice . |
| 27 | It should be clear by now that the speaker does not have a choice in the matter of the pitch of the syllables in the tail . |
| 28 | I read the Blues Brothers review and the soundtrack gave me an idea : why not have a soundtrack chart in ZZAP ! ? |
| 29 | If your room does not have a balcony or terrace , a view of the sea will be available from the room . |
| 30 | There can be very few machines that do not have a spreadsheet program and if yours is one of them then you are probably missing out on one of the most valuable tools available . |