Example sentences of "not [verb] have [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is interesting to note that , the exposure and greater control of FBI activities do not appear to have placed the United States at the mercy of subversives . |
| 2 | If the conclusions derived from the analysis of the content of Merovingian gold coin and Anglo-Saxon jewellery are correct ( Hawkes , Merrick and Metcalf 1966 ) , the jewellers do not appear to have refined the gold . |
| 3 | The inequality of wealth and income was still gross , although the rise of unemployment does not appear to have worsened the position of the working classes . |
| 4 | Beto describes diagnostic units as the Ford Edsells of American corrections , although he does not claim to have invented the metaphor . |
| 5 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 6 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 7 | By contrast , certain defences are provided for the person who is not proved to have formed the intent , but whose language or conduct is likely to give rise to racial hatred . |
| 8 | I am not claiming to have considered the whole of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and its satellites . |
| 9 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 10 | We have to go to Livy and to minor sources for evidence of the conflicts inside the Roman ruling class and between Romans and allies in the first half of the second century B.C. Polybius does not seem to have noticed the feuds inside Rome which accompanied what may appear to us the most uncontroversial aspect of the Roman expansion in Liguria and in Piedmont . |
| 11 | And while he has successfully offended the doctrinaire Protestants , he does not seem to have pleased the Pope . |
| 12 | The camera does not seem to have made the take-over bid for his active imagination that other people record . |
| 13 | The conflict with -ine meaning a basic group ( especially alkaloid names ) does not seem to have worried the participants , although it was commented on by Armstrong . |
| 14 | This cautionary tale does not seem to have deterred the punters , who have bought copiously in the vintages 1985 ( charming , forward wines ) , 1986 ( a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape , and thus for wines like Latour and Mouton-Rothschild ) and 1988 ( sometimes combining the charm of 1985 with the concentration of 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Oddly enough , the author of the epilogue does not seem to have known the name of the king who first ordered the compilation . |
| 16 | Now 25 , Jane does not pretend to have reached the point where she is back enjoying her golf . |
| 17 | Of course , we do n't have to have experienced the suffering in question to bring comfort . |
| 18 | The Government 's refusal to accept needy folk ca n't pay has left the Region chasing its own tail — trying , at vast cost , to collect money that by and large simply is n't there . |
| 19 | While the Macintosh and PC both have a number of data base programs in common ; Ashton Tate 's dBASE and Blyth Omnis/Crystal being the best supported , the software houses do n't seem to have kept the products quite as similar as they might have done . |
| 20 | I though it was scab , and followed a spraying treatment for that , but it does n't seem to have solved the problem yet . |