Example sentences of "has not [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | While this might seem to be stating the obvious , the fact is that this issue has not received a great deal of systematic ( as opposed to post hoc ) discussion in the literature . |
2 | Diplomats asked Buckingham Palace to warn her against any trip to the island , which has not received a royal visitor for many years . |
3 | VS Naipaul has not created a credible woman character , which is a fairly major fault . |
4 | James , who played at Tottenham last Saturday , has not kept a clean sheet in his 12 first team appearances , while third choice Hooper excelled in last week 's reserve clash with Leicester . |
5 | Paradoxically it has not developed a formalised set of principles or immutable knowledge which could , for example , be structured into an academic text-book about socio-technical systems . |
6 | However , the fact that a person has a specific skill will not absolve an occupier who has not exercised a sufficient degree of care ( Ogwo v Taylor ) . |
7 | He confessed that the model he had in mind was Pascal 's letters , but alas his pamphlet has not achieved a similar immortality . |
8 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
9 | However , if the user has not accessed a particular field type during the current session , the user must enter the required value and press TAB . |
10 | She says she has not lost a single client and has already won several new audit clients . |
11 | This eminent folklorist , however , has not given a full consideration to the Celtic background . |
12 | The Bank has not given a formal ruling on this method of presentation from a capital adequacy perspective . |
13 | She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since . |
14 | She looked relaxed at a Guildhall lunch but a spokesman said : ‘ She has no plans to travel to Scotland at present but she has not made a final decision . ’ |
15 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
16 | ‘ Technology thrives by taking the best elements of technology from countries around the world , so free trade is absolutely crucial , but so far he has not made a clear stand on free trade . ’ |
17 | Marwood has failed to win a regular place at Bramall Lane since his £300,000 transfer from Arsenal two years ago and has not made a single appearance this season . |
18 | fjortoft has not scored a single goal in the premiership yet ( he kept them coming at a very steady rate at rapid vienna ( under manager Hans Krankl — one of my favorite strikers — favorite striker of all times has to be Der Bomber , Gerd Muller , who scored something like 60 goals in 50 internationals ! did he in fact score against us in our 2–0 defeat vs Bayern Munich ? ) ) — i guess Fjortoft has problems adjusting to the english play and swindon is not the best of teams anyway . |
19 | Congress has not become a parliamentary poodle or a mere captive of the executive branch ; it remains an imposing and fractious body , fully capable of defending its position and thwarting presidential ambitions . |
20 | The Earth 's atmosphere has not played a similar role , because of the comparatively low rate of heat transport from the interior , via solid phase convection . |
21 | Ian Ferguson , of Rangers , who has not played a competitive match for six weeks , was last night called into the squad in response to other doubts surrounding the fitness of Leeds United 's Gary McAllister , Eoin Jess ( Aberdeen ) and the Hearts pair , John Robertson and Alan McLaren . |
22 | ABERDEEN 's Stewart McKimmie , who has not played a first-team game for seven months because of a knee injury , could be recalled for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final replay with Clydebank , at Kilbowie Park , tonight . |
23 | In the past , the Left in British politics has not displayed a keen interest in the subtleties of the British constitution because two strategic models for socialist transformation , the parliamentary and the insurrectionary , have dominated thinking , debate , and action . |
24 | Despite — some would say because of — the cosy consensus which had been created by a powerful nuclear lobby with tacit political support , the development of nuclear power in Britain has not followed a smooth path . |
25 | This year , however , The Fellow has not enjoyed a triumphal procession through his races and returns to Kempton with something to prove . |
26 | His Department has not allocated a single penny to that programme for 1992-93 . |
27 | The hon. Gentleman should note that although the Cornish air ambulance makes a valaable contribution in the county , it has not produced a measured improvement in response times for ambulances in Cornwall . |
28 | Marxist literary criticism has not produced a new theory in over twenty years . |
29 | The common law has not proved a great source of procedural protection for aliens . |
30 | ‘ The recession has not had a major impact , ’ said a spokesman . |