Example sentences of "have not [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments .
2 Erm as you know sir , you 've heard already er the department has not yet received advice from the region as to the content of strategic guidance .
3 The first line — ’ Our Father which art in heaven , hallowed be thy name ’ has not yet given way in children 's parlance to ’ Our Father in heaven , may your name be hallowed ’ , or , ’ Our Father in heaven , may your holy name be honoured . ’
4 Hauge says his assessment is still incomplete , since he has not yet had access to Soviet military records .
5 A buyer of goods can sue the seller or a third party for conversion if he has ownership of the goods even though he has not yet got possession of them .
6 However , this redistribution has not yet taken place to any significant extent , with the acute hospital sector managing to preserve its stranglehold upon health care expenditure .
7 TopLog International has not yet put pen to paper with Univel Inc to support Unixware , as reported last week ( Ux No 399 ) .
8 On this approach , to take an old example , if one dug a pit for the victim to fall into , one would not be guilty under s.20 because one has not directly applied force to the victim .
9 However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) .
10 Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men .
11 I fear that this has not necessarily taken place in every case .
12 There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public .
13 This " veteran assault force " ( as he called it ) was composed of the only men left from the cantonment community whom he had not yet made use of , the few elderly gentlemen who had managed to survive the rigours of the siege .
14 The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one .
15 So far ‘ King James III and VIII ’ , for whom all this sacrifice was being made , had not yet set foot in either of his kingdoms .
16 How should one estimate the faults of those who offered incense without any torture , those who gave way only after cruel torture by rack and fire , and those who had not actually offered incense at all but had bribed a friendly official to sell them a certificate to say they had done so ?
17 As Duchess of Aquitaine she had inherited the ducal claim to Toulouse , but at Limoges Raymond had not only done homage to the Dukes of Aquitaine , he had also done homage to the Young King .
18 By 1914 Japan had not only achieved revision of the unequal treaties , but also alliance with Britain and the beginnings of an empire .
19 To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later .
20 He had not only to acquire knowledge of the artificial-flower trade but to compete , while paying full male wages , against most manufacturers , who employed low-waged girls .
21 ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends .
22 If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look .
23 After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial .
24 I had n't officially stopped work till the first of September .
25 With relief Suzi had departed back to Hochhauser , feeling she had n't altogether lost face amongst her fellow students after all , her choice of career was still quite artistic and adventurous , it was still ‘ show business ’ in a way — but also overjoyed to be going home .
26 I had n't even grown hair on mine .
27 I had n't actually tasted whisky before and I never will again .
28 We might have been a lot wiser if , presumably to preserve their privacy , they had n't always used English in front of Maria .
29 An introductory course is provided for students who have not previously studied Biology at these levels .
30 Shareholders will often entertain reasonable buying propositions , even when they have not previously contemplated sale of their shares .
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