Example sentences of "and [verb] not have " in BNC.

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1 He had arrived , pale and markedly short of sleep , at seven-fifty and at eight-thirty had rung Penelope Huntley 's flat to find her barely awake , bad-tempered , vague and professing not to have made an appointment at all .
2 However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability .
3 Offered a settlement that would have retrieved half the gold , Moreira sternly refused — and has not had any of it back .
4 However , this is a major penetrative feature triggered by a fault ( the Outer Silver Pit Fault ) and has not had the displacive effect of the salt swells located further south and east .
5 This colony probably started as an offshoot of Glynleigh , being only about a mile away , and has not had more than eight nests .
6 The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it .
7 Mark Flannagan , formerly Director of ASH Workplace Services , has been promoted to this post and has not had time to snatch a wink of sleep since .
8 Fuchs , however , held ultimate responsibility for Mr Lees 's actions and seems not to have made adequate attempts to investigate problems within his own museum as they developed .
9 Unlike the ‘ fairy forts ’ in Ireland , it bears no evidence of fortification , and seems not to have been inhabited .
10 Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem .
11 It 's full of historic buildings , including a marvellous cathedral and appears not to have suffered damage during World War II so that there is much architectural variety from many eras including the nineteenth and early twentieth century too .
12 Having a slot meter means that you pay for your fuel as you use it and do not have to worry about large quarterly bills .
13 However , many older people are not married and do not have children — and a small number outlive their children .
14 Gujerati families which live as joint families in Britain and do not have , or have never had , this strict but uneasy hierarchy must be few and far between .
15 Among the groups of people who would become British Overseas citizens as soon as the law comes into force would be citizens of the UK and colonies who are living in present and former colonies and do not have British-born ancestors .
16 The best and most experienced accounting officers come out about all square and do not have to suffer the indignity of having to ask their ministers to present supplementary estimates to Parliament at the end of the financial year .
17 When large quantities of oil are released after the break-up of a tanker , for example , sea birds appear to be more visibly affected than the smooth-skinned dolphins , possibly because cetaceans can choose to swim away from oil slicks , and do not have to keep returning through slicks to nesting sites on shore .
18 This condition is usually associated with bulbs which have naturalised and , having been inadequately maintained , they gradually become less and less vigorous and do not have sufficient energy to produce flowers .
19 In researching this book I read a quote from a well-known doctor working with girls with eating disorders : he said that in the West , if you are female and do not have hang-ups about your body , you are abnormal .
20 They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up .
21 They rely for their action on enhancing the mechanical action of manual scrubbing and do not have a true chemical activity .
22 Real time pressures arise when you are faced with complex tasks and do not have sufficient leeway to consider the best form of action .
23 However , as stated previously , it is only for the purposes of discussion that any AL can be considered on its own ; in reality , the various activities are closely related and do not have distinct boundaries .
24 A special feature is the principle of delayed and informed choice by which students gain a broad foundation in the study of the humanities and do not have to commit themselves to their degree programme until the end of the first year .
25 The cats in question have never lived near the new home and do not have any knowledge of the new locality .
26 The cements that are used in orthopaedic surgery generate heat during setting and do not have the same level of biocompatibility as bioceramics .
27 If you can not remember the details and do not have the relevant piece of paper in front of you , you may find yourself floundering as you try to answer a question you have not really understood .
28 Only drink bottled water ( a well-known brand , if possible , such as Perrier ) and do not have ice in your drinks .
29 After all , the new towns have been built in a car-familiar age and do not have accident rates inflated by large numbers of pre-car districts of great traffic danger .
30 The advantage of the latter is that the boxes can be made up beforehand and do not have to be set out .
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