Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the [noun sg] have " in BNC.

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1 The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes .
2 Not noticing the church had n't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart .
3 In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post .
4 No I was not pushing the time have you got this , put the other side on
5 It did not matter the King had refused his name ‘ Everhope ’ for the new colony and returned to Columbus 's christening ; he could not mind that beside this prize , the governorship itself .
6 Last night Chief Insp Bryan Lowrie said it did not appear the body had been in the graveyard for any length of time and certainly no longer than a week .
7 Last night Chief Insp Bryan Lowrie said it did not appear the body had been in the graveyard for any length of time and certainly no longer than a week .
8 Agency workers , operating in sectors of acute labour shortage , usually feel themselves adequately rewarded by the workings of the market and do not feel the need to have any institution intervening on their behalf .
9 you do not feel the solicitor has reached the heart of the problem .
10 It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter .
11 Well that is it , not got the patience have they ?
12 However it is clear that these students who did not meet the GER had passed through a rigorous process of selection , and a number of them already had two A-level at the time of entry .
13 Now doctors who dare not move the slug have warned Nicola that one spin on her feet could dislodge it and instantly blind her .
14 NOT ASSESSED the user has not yet assessed the DC .
15 If this situation arises , however , preferred shareholders do not have the right to have the firm declared insolvent , unlike bondholders .
16 It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position .
17 The chairman of the Northern Development Company — Sir Ron Dearing — said in The Northern Echo on 17 September : ’ I am not saying the recession has n't hurt .
18 Held up in a jam on , say , the M25 we curse the planners for not having the foresight to have built a five-lane motorway joining up to other five-lane motorways .
19 ( It was widely assumed he was not adjudging the ball to have been thrown ! )
20 as a prelude to smiling , not knowing the shutter had fallen .
21 But he said that does not mean the administration has ruled out the use of force in future efforts to oust the general .
22 The task of the tribunal is to ascertain , according to ‘ reasonableness ’ and ‘ equity and the substantial merits of the case ’ , whether the dismissal is unfair , not to decide the issue having regard for contractual terms which , themselves , sometimes seem inequitable .
23 According to Radio Ukraine , 3,500 officers not taking the oath had already voluntarily left the service and settled in Ukraine .
24 Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) .
25 This protection for the local authority does not require the residence to have taken place for the whole 12 months in the house to which succession is claimed .
26 One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration .
27 It is almost impossible to stop this initial run without tearing the hook out of the fish 's mouth , and yet you must not let the barbel have all his own way .
28 Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes .
29 That is not to say the report has been ignored completely .
30 ‘ I had n't realised the news had already reached you .
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