Example sentences of "not yet [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , and in theory , it may be appealing to believe that we can all unite and go along together with common defence and foreign policies , but the reality — and after the Gulf war , I must say , the experience , too , to some extent — suggests that we have not yet developed the degree of cohesion and common purpose that must must be a prerequisite for common foreign and defence policies . |
| 2 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 3 | Mr Keith Banks , a principal education officer for Durham , said he had not yet seen the guarantee in writing . |
| 4 | This you have in common with the rest of the zodiac but Virgos , in particular , will discover aspects and talents within themselves that have not yet seen the light of day . |
| 5 | So the book , or one of the books , which Eliot wanted me to write has not yet seen the light of day . |
| 6 | Chairman Bob Gavron said that the group had not yet seen an upturn in its markets , and that the modest increase in pretax profits was achieved by an increase in market share in some businesses , an improved product mix , greater efficiency and cost containment . |
| 7 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 8 | They were pure ‘ gimmick ’ — a much-used Fifties word which had not yet become a term of abuse . |
| 9 | I have not yet received a reply to my letter dated 21st May 1992 asking for information about temporary caravan sites and caravan rallies . |
| 10 | Obviously , I did not receive an answer to my question from the Scottish Office and , even under the priority written procedure , I have not yet received an answer from the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 11 | The Swiss Government has also submitted its application for membership , but has not yet received the assent in the referendum which it requires for this application to go forward formally . |
| 12 | ELIMINATING the negative has not yet done the trick for Labour . |
| 13 | Until now the race has been organised as part of the larger Middlesbrough Festival , but the council has not yet determined the date of that event . |
| 14 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 15 | To date I have not yet discovered a document with this imprint on , but I live in hope of finding one , some day . |
| 16 | Although it has not yet achieved an acceptability on a par with headhunting in America , it has now established a recognised niche in British business , and is thrusting deeper into the corporate jungle . |
| 17 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 18 | I have not yet challenged the assumption with which conventionalism begins : that whatever consensus lawyers have achieved about legislation and precedent is properly seen as a matter of convention . |
| 19 | Norwegian scientists who have been testing the seas for several years have yet to detect any significant radioactive contaminating of fish , but they have not yet tested the water near the dumping sites . |
| 20 | Fowler had not yet heard a word from Cissie , which perhaps explained why the old man asked and answered his own questions . |
| 21 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 22 | For all his scrupulously clean musicianship Hardy does not yet command the range of colour and accent of Shlomo Mintz — witness the windover-the-graves scales at the end of the first and last movements . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary has not yet made a decision on what recommendations if any will be adopted . |
| 24 | Abdel Wahid El Wakil has not yet made a building in the UK and works abroad mainly in the Gulf . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman has not yet asked a question of the Prime Minister . |
| 26 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 27 | The fame of Ian Dury — godfather of punk , creator of Sex ‘ n ’ Drugs and Rock ‘ n ’ Roll and , as he describes himself in rhyming slang , ‘ Britain 's best-known raspberry ripple ’ — has not yet reached every corner of the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford . |
| 28 | Alas , the Disney magic dust has not yet reached every corner of the French theme park . |
| 29 | He , like Lewis , had not yet reached a position of religious faith , but he was dissatisfied with purely materialistic explanations for life 's mysteries , and he found the conversation of Barfield intoxicating . |
| 30 | On March 11 former President Ahmed Ben Bella 's party , the Movement for Democracy in Algeria ( Mouvement pour la démocratie en Algérie ) , was legalized although Ben Bella himself remained in exile in Switzerland , the Algerian judicial authorities having not yet reached a decision on whether to drop charges against him . |