Example sentences of "[not/n't] yet [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of the protein product encoded by this transcript , it is not yet possible to predict which start signal is most favoured . |
| 2 | However , it is not yet possible to predict with any certainty what proportion of the population the older age groups will represent as future fertility remains the subject of considerable speculation . |
| 3 | He says , I remain concerned that it is not yet possible to agree an implementation plan for recommendations made in his previous report . |
| 4 | In practice , most plant production using tissue culture utilises cells that are known as callus , a mass of undifferentiated cells which are produced to repair damage , or cells from leaves , roots or stems ( see discussion in M G K Jones 1986 ) , although it is not yet possible to regenerate all plants in this way and in the context of agriculture , the cereals are the most notable exceptions . |
| 5 | Also the battery life of portable computers is not yet long enough for consumer use , the memory is not adequate , and it is not yet possible to replace disk drives with removable solid state memory . |
| 6 | So it is not yet possible to say with absolute certainty , using evoked potentials that are correlated with reports of conscious mental events , whether or not an individual external event has resulted in a particular mental event . |
| 7 | It is not yet possible to say how common the practice of appointing absentee courtiers to administrative posts had become by 1603 . |
| 8 | When the hon. Gentleman sees the full details for the range of different places involved , he will realise that there are some complicated plans for north of Inverness — for example , at Dingwall , Kirkwall , Stornoway , Thurso and Wick — and it is not yet possible to determine how they will work out . |
| 9 | It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it is not yet possible to transfer this capacity for a symbiotic relationship between the host plant and rhizobia to crops other than legumes . |
| 11 | Though not yet illegal to discriminate on health grounds , there can be no doubt that it is immoral and unethical to do so . ’ |
| 12 | Lenin 's reply reiterated his argument that world and social development was ‘ uneven ’ , so that , even in the most economically advanced countries , the social differentiation between classes and awareness of this differentiation were not yet sufficient to take for granted the primacy of class , as opposed to national , identity . |
| 13 | Specifically with respect to Latin America , Soviet commentators have written , ‘ The socialist countries … are interested in widening their trade and economic ties with Latin America , particularly in the form of regular purchases of individual foodstuffs which either do not grow in the temperate climate of the socialist countries ( coffee , cocoa-beans , bananas , and so on ) or whose production at home is not yet sufficient to meet the population 's needs completely ’ ( a discreet reference to grain and meat , which the Soviet Union has purchased in substantial quantities in Latin America ) ( Zhuravleva : 1983 , p. 44 ) . |
| 14 | Reading between the lines , it was evident that de Gaulle was seeking to encourage those individuals in the political establishment — such as President Coty and the deputy prime minister , Guy Mollet — who were already moving towards a Gaullist solution , but that he was not yet willing to negotiate with the collective leadership of the Republic . |
| 15 | However , because salaries are low in many social services as compared to work in industry , many men are put off , and the employment of married women creates problems that society is not yet willing to face — the need for day nursery accommodation , for example ( which itself creates a further demand for staff ) , and for a more relaxed public attitude towards the working mother . |
| 16 | For she was not yet willing to admit defeat and retreat to England . |
| 17 | Jonas handed out the cups of tea and she accepted hers with a tight smile , not yet ready to forgive him his duplicity . |
| 18 | Although the Czech delegation , consisting of the directors and head curators from virtually every major gallery in Bohemia and Moravia , expressed a real desire for a quicker and fuller integration with the wider art world , it soon became apparent that the Czechs are not yet ready to engage fully with their Western counterparts . |
| 19 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you are not yet ready to use them correctly . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Yeltsin 's statement on May 14th shows that Russia is not yet ready to replace the rouble zone with a more efficient system of individual currencies . |
| 22 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 23 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 24 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 25 | ‘ As for myself I know that I am not yet ready to retire completely . |
| 26 | Paul Reichmann was not yet ready to abandon the ship . |
| 27 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 28 | However , Hezbollah , which maintained a stronghold in the suburbs of southern Beirut , reportedly informed the government that it was not yet ready to make a decision on the security plan . |
| 29 | The German position was supported by Japan 's Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , who told US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady during bilateral talks preceding the formal session that Japan was not yet ready to change its economic policies . |
| 30 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |