Example sentences of "have not [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 2 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 3 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 4 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 5 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 6 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 7 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 8 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 9 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 10 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 11 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 12 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 13 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 14 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 15 | That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm . |
| 16 | She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough . |
| 17 | No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator . |
| 18 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
| 19 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
| 20 | Overall , however , prevention and treatment have not progressed as quickly as was hoped , and research and development must be pursued vigorously to take account of contemporary perceptions of the disorder . |
| 21 | However , even if bus networks have not declined as markedly as has , say , the rail network , frequency of services has usually declined and fares have increased . |
| 22 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 23 | ‘ I have not gone any further than the evidence allowed , ’ Boaz said . |
| 24 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 25 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 26 | Dear Lord You know that I have not worked as hard as I ought . |
| 27 | On the other hand , uprating many benefits in line with prices rather than earnings means that recipients have not shared as fully as others in the higher living standards achieved in the 1980s . |
| 28 | ‘ Both John Emburey and Phil Tufnell have not bowled as well as they can but they must be given the opportunity to bowl more on these kind of turning pitches at home . |
| 29 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 30 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |