Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ . |
| 2 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 3 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 4 | Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) . |
| 5 | In the meantime , ‘ community policing has not developed into a partnership between police and public in the fight against crime . |
| 6 | Clearly our valuable training input to the local area has not featured as a priority on the local Labour Party agenda . |
| 7 | At the time of writing , the UK Parliament has not progressed beyond a draft Bill . |
| 8 | Nobody who has not lived in a dungeon could understand how absolute the silence down here is . |
| 9 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 10 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 11 | These same tests should be satisfied before a magistrate commits anyone for trial in relation to a libel which has not appeared in a newspaper or periodical . |
| 12 | The eastern Australian passive margin is one region where there has been a fruitful interchange of ideas and data between geomorphologists and geophysicists , although this has not resulted in a consensus as to either the history of uplift or the mechanisms that have caused it . |
| 13 | Erm but it has n't to the best of my knowledge it has not resulted in a rash of of developments and motorway intersections . |
| 14 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp announced that its chief financial officer and executive vice-president of worldwide operations Frank Gaudette , 57 , died early on Friday after an eight-month fight with lymphatic cancer ; the Redmond company says that it has not thought about a successor . |
| 16 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 17 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 18 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 19 | If , however , a culture has not got beyond a point at which satisfaction of one portion of its participants depends upon the suppression of another , and perhaps , larger portion — and this is the case in all present-day cultures — it is understandable that the suppressed people should develop an intense hostility towards a culture whose existence they make possible by their work , but in whose wealth they have too small a share . |
| 20 | The difference between the French and English approaches to making mustard , technology apart , has not changed for a century . |
| 21 | He has n't trained for a month and wo n't travel with the 18-man squad . |
| 22 | Armstrong has n't trained since an elbow in the face from Curtis Fleming in the derby win over Middlesbrough . |
| 23 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 24 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 25 | The kind of farcical spectacle pop has n't provided for a while , it had everything from Radio 1 getting in a tizzy about whether to ban it to TOTP carrying drug warnings , from ageing DJs singing along to the chorus to ageing rockers ( Francis Rossi of Status Quo ) crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it . |
| 26 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he continued , giving his grandmother a look of clearly mingled liking and exasperation , ‘ my grandmother has n't looked at an employment application in five years . |
| 27 | It has n't passed on a penny to the landlord … and his tenancy agreement may not now be worth the paper it 's written on |
| 28 | It is not difficult — though may be expensive — to hire a guide for a day ( or a week ) so that you find the best snow available at each time of the day and each season , whether it has n't snowed for a week or is blizzarding as you start the day . |
| 29 | Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years . |
| 30 | The pub has n't changed in a century . |