Example sentences of "has not [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so .
2 There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses .
3 The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars .
4 But the main reason why interviews prove ineffective is that the interviewer has not been properly trained and has not prepared thoroughly for the task .
5 Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village .
6 Indeed , no accepted curriculum subject has not featured somewhere in the proposal documents .
7 McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes .
8 The simple service has not altered basically over the years .
9 He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election .
10 He has not turned out for the village team since .
11 He has not turned out for the village team since .
12 Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped .
13 Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it .
14 She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might .
15 Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it .
16 At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections .
17 In the past , the use of these uplands for sheep and beef cattle rearing has not conflicted significantly with the need to retain habitats such as moorlands , hill grasslands , high altitude montane vegetation , enclosed pastures and hay meadows , wetlands and native woodlands , which form the basis of the nature conservation interest of the 9.68 million hectares of upland in the UK .
18 Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury .
19 But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed .
20 According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live .
21 Critics may argue that it has not moved enough with the times , is not as up-to-date in its special effects as its counterparts across the Atlantic , but this perhaps highlights its attraction .
22 Then if he still has not come out of the tent I will go down there while it is still light , very quietly , and see if I can see , without getting too close , how he is .
23 And although attendance during the rainy season was poor , the company 's projection of 11m visitors for the first year has not proved far from the mark .
24 So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above .
25 The four claim the current administration has not responded adequately to the fast-moving demands of a modern-day sport .
26 The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the first was published , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn[000] .
27 The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn .
28 The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared .
29 The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information .
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