Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [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 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 10 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had not gone very far when the mysterious little girl suddenly appeared again , from the dry gully of a mountain stream . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough . |
| 19 | She had n't complained too fiercely because that was not her nature , and also something told her that Camille undoubtedly ate other people 's parents ' mangoes with the same insouciance . |
| 20 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 21 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 22 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 23 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 24 | Dysart nodded , considered the point for a moment then said : ‘ Some might say it was a sign she had n't recovered as well as we 'd hoped . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I had n't thought as far as that , ’ she said , quivering . |
| 26 | Maria questioned him , aware that his desire for her had n't died yet even if the need to respect himself again had dictated that he put an end to their affair . |
| 27 | The issue of access is just one of the barriers that we have not tackled as positively as we would have wished . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |