Example sentences of "not [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 2 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 3 | The selected object is surrounded by a rectangle , which forms the background but does not necessarily have a border , and these tiles can then be arranged as required , used as fills or combined with the clipping function . |
| 4 | Those who had to live with the legacy of Cold War did not necessarily have a future that was any clearer or simpler than those who inherited the remains of Hitler 's Europe four and a half decades earlier . |
| 5 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 6 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 7 | The new city does not necessarily have a bishop or a cathedral . |
| 8 | If you do not already have a bank account you are advised to open one . |
| 9 | Detainees in police stations should have no more difficulty in obtaining therapeutic agents than the average citizen at home , and probably less , since the latter does not generally have a car and driver to collect his medicines from the local pharmacy . |
| 10 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 11 | First , it means that , viewing citizens as customers , they do not usually have a choice of alternative suppliers . |
| 12 | Joanna , trying to cope with the painful fact that she can not ever have a baby , begins to remember the life of 19th-century Anna and her son , Merlin . |
| 13 | Her remarkable statement in an interview , ‘ I am the Cabinet rebel ’ suggests that , if she gave a lead , she did not always have a majority of followers . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy that old people may not always have a sense of choice about whether or not to go into residential care . |
| 15 | He did not always have a voice , but he always had a point of view . |
| 16 | You will not always have a book available to you . |
| 17 | This way , it was going to be fairly obvious that someone had emptied a bottle of bleach into the punch but , since Henry could not possibly have a motive for murdering the whole of Maple Drive ( as far as the police were concerned , anyway ) , it would be relatively easy for him to gasp in horror and dismay and to take the Wimbledon CID around the places where he had left the bowl of punch unattended . |
| 18 | However , as an mere individual I do not also have a right to inherit his seat in parliament . |
| 19 | If an estate agent is convicted under the act the client does not automatically have a right of action in civil proceedings for loss which may have been brought about as a result of the offence . |
| 20 | Whatever understanding of societies we gain in future , we do not now have a theory of ideology capable of explaining the myriad ways in which individuals perceive their situations , nor a theory of the social determination of character that will account for the vicissitudes of history . |
| 21 | Did she not now have a husband , a child , a home ? |
| 22 | Stewart , who had been playing well , hammered his first ball down the throat of third man , and with West Indies taking time-wasting tactics to the extreme — 16.5 overs in around two hours — England did not really have a hope . |
| 23 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 24 | Today , however , we do not really have a politics of opinion or of action — nothing is proposed that either stirs the blood or excites the mind . |
| 25 | It is to show that Britain does not really have a constitution at all , merely a system of government , even if some parts of it are more important to our democratic order than others or are treated ( perhaps : were treated until Mrs Thatcher 's time ) with greater veneration . |
| 26 | ‘ Similarly , a region which felt hard done by a national government does not really have a remedy within the commission or the Court of Justice . ’ |
| 27 | But I do not even have a vocabulary to describe the distinctive tang of a pear or a peach . |
| 28 | She did not even have a blanket , she had no money for food , and no idea of where to go for help . |
| 29 | They may not even have a friend . |
| 30 | The master was lost in a fire , no one can put their hands on a pressing , Jubilee does not even have a test copy , and nobody has a tape of it . |