Example sentences of "[verb] not yet [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest . |
| 2 | Mrs Priestley said they did not yet know the identity of the donor but she and her husband would like to express their gratitude to the donor 's family . |
| 3 | They did not yet have the economic means to raise enough hard currencies to pay for their oil and gas imports from the Soviet Union , and most of them were burdened with heavy levels of external debt , also denominated in hard currencies . |
| 4 | This advance could , in fact , have placed the BEF in a dangerous salient , for strategists did not yet comprehend the crippling defensive effectiveness of machine-guns and artillery . |
| 5 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 6 | Such a description accounts well for the situation of SF for children , who do not yet possess the relevant textual or literary competence to perform advanced reading-strategies such as implicature , bridging and high-level interpretation . |
| 7 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 8 | Scientists do not yet know the sex of the chicks . |
| 9 | Unfortunately we do not yet know the accuracy of the three tests in combination . |
| 10 | We do not yet know the exact form the correct theory of quantum gravity will take . |
| 11 | Of course , we do not yet know the precise values of the coefficients of the solution , the π 's , but we can now begin to work them out . |
| 12 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 13 | Negotiations for contracts after 1993 have not started , so we do not yet know the tonnages or the volumes . |
| 14 | We do not yet know the precise figures required — that is up to British Coal . |
| 15 | The majority of organisations do not yet appreciate the value of managing information as a resource , nor the benefits of doing so ; ’ ( ibid . : |
| 16 | Already we have a few examples of the end-product of several stages of processing , although we do not yet understand the mechanisms . |
| 17 | If we do not yet have the solution to the problem of consciousness , we are at least working towards it within the right framework . |
| 18 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 19 | Renters are not ‘ down-and-outs ’ , but those who do not yet have the opportunity to own a home , though they may well do so in later life . |
| 20 | Adolescent girls do not yet have the lid of society fitting tightly on their bubbling psyches — and we have , therefore , the phenomenon of frenzied screaming at rock stars , or wild dancing , as an outlet for some of this ‘ night energy ’ . |
| 21 | In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition . |
| 22 | Phone back within twenty-four hours to report progress even if you do not yet have the answer . |
| 23 | I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April . |
| 24 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 25 | Joseph Feshbach , whose Southgate Partners manages $900m in short positions , feels that the price of bank shares does not yet reflect the decline in property values . |
| 26 | Thus , there does not yet exist the foundation of a professional consensus on what constitutes good assessment practice with older people . |
| 27 | For all his scrupulously clean musicianship Hardy does not yet command the range of colour and accent of Shlomo Mintz — witness the windover-the-graves scales at the end of the first and last movements . |
| 28 | The first round has already been filmed at the flight simulator in Leicester , the assault course in Bolton and the studio questions in Manchester , but Paul does not yet know the date of transmission . |
| 29 | Of the top terminal manufacturers , only IBM ( the biggest ) does not yet support the AlphaWindows effort , though it does market JSB 's AlphaWindows MultiView Mascot product and DIA is continuing talks with it on the subject . |