Example sentences of "[not/n't] yet [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 2 | So far , many of the improvements they brought about have survived , and the fragmented bus industry has not yet led to a breakdown of the integrated ticketing that marked such a step forward in British practice . |
| 3 | Such changes in the target areas of lending not only make its impact more difficult to assess , but have not yet led to a sustained improvement in the rate of economic growth achieved by recipient countries . |
| 4 | The Yugoslav revolution succeeded in preventing the nationalities within its state frontiers from massacring each other almost certainly for longer than ever before in their history and though this achievement is now unfortunately crumbling , by the end of 1988 national tensions had not yet led to a single fatality . |
| 5 | The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government . |
| 6 | Worsening expectations had not yet led to a collapse in investment , however . |
| 7 | Although the ‘ phoney war ’ was still continuing , the outlook was sombre : bacon , butter and sugar rationing was introduced that month , and people were not yet adjusted to the blackout . |
| 8 | If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex . |
| 9 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 10 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 11 | Three days before the CAA hearing , the new Virgin Atlantic Airways was launched publicly at Maxims restaurant in London , with the requisite drum-banging to ensure the media paid full attention to Branson 's claim that there were ‘ 250,000 people who do not yet travel to New York , but would if the price was right ’ . |
| 12 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |
| 13 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 14 | That political will does not exist because public opinion has not yet begun to be aware of the scale of possible changes that governments will ask their publics to accept . |
| 15 | During the inter-war period , the quasi-autonomous model of administration ( the quango ) was not yet geared to any effective imposition of a programme of this kind upon the universities , or the schools of English within them . |
| 16 | The White Park apart , the British breeds are closely related — they have not yet diverged to a noticeable extent in spite of their apparent differences . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 18 | I have not yet beckoned to her so that she will come running to me , so that I shall lie with her today and tonight and tomorrow , and for a great many tomorrows . |
| 19 | Formal announcement is not expected before the autumn , and the product is planned for the first half of next year , with the prime target market seen as MS-DOS users that have not yet succumbed to the blandishments of Windows and might otherwise jump straight to NT . |
| 20 | Mr Dienstbier said the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , did not yet appear to be a ‘ strong and flexible politician ’ , and indicated he would be acceptable in the post only on condition that President Gustav Husak step down , to be replaced by a non-Communist head of state . |
| 21 | Too little has been spent on maintaining the system in the past and the industry , faced with signs of accelerating failure rates , does not yet appear to be doing enough to contain the rate of decay . |
| 22 | The Ghanaian novelist , Kwasi Armah , gave the title The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born to a novel he published in 1969 . |
| 23 | ‘ I returned , and saw under the sun , that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong , neither yet bread to the wise , nor yet riches to men of understanding , not yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all ’ ( Ecclesiastes ) . |
| 24 | Sadly , pregnant girls were not yet flocking to this club , even after a launch day at the civic centre , and radio advertising . |
| 25 | Uranium acquired but not yet allocated to civil or military use escapes this obligation , however . |
| 26 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 28 | The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis . |
| 29 | It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought . |
| 30 | A guilt compounded by the suicide five years ago of his sister Angela ( nine years his senior ) , with which he admits he has not yet come to terms . |