Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This development has not yet however spoilt the essentially rural nature of the village . |
| 2 | It should also be remembered that newspaper people work very fast — the very latest news is always the most desirable , as is instanced by the occasional ‘ scoop ’ of the event which has not yet even happened . |
| 3 | ‘ Something the Committee has not yet quite decided ’ Sprague murmured thumbing through his hymn book ‘ but I-believe will come to accept shortly . |
| 4 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 5 | It is a period which has not yet manifestly reached its climax ; and in the more recent past it has been characterised in Britain , as elsewhere , by a marked increase in the use of firearms . |
| 6 | Thus it would appear that Judaism , however interpreted , has not very well served its followers despite its devout and sincere advocates . |
| 7 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 8 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 9 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 10 | The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice . |
| 11 | Howard is still a little jealous of his authority , has n't yet quite grasped the new set-up since my Ministry was established . |
| 12 | The only technology which has n't yet really blossomed in the page printer market is that of the inkjet and it is likely that this will replace the current 300dpi page printers in the not too distant future . |
| 13 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |
| 14 | ‘ It has n't so far happened . |
| 15 | No you did n't really though did you ? |
| 16 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 17 | He knew that , essentially , he had not yet utterly satisfied her and that was unbearable . |
| 18 | In fact at the time the verderers were weighing these possibilities Marian , Allen , and Hugh had not yet even discovered the existence of the Swamp . |
| 19 | Hazel could not help feeling relieved that Bigwig had brought only Silver a quiet , straightforward fellow , who had not yet really found his feet among the veterans . |
| 20 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 21 | Probably they had not so much disappeared as retreated , with the local dialect , into the private and unofficial underworld of non-literate culture . |
| 22 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 23 | Even though we want the judgements of young doctors to be securely based on the evidence , we want to feel that they have not just assiduously acquired the necessary knowledge , but also have immediate first-hand understanding of it in practice , having conducted patient examinations , observed relevant operations , and so forth . |
| 24 | They have not therefore always reached their conclusion on analytical grounds ; often these conclusions are expressive of a pragmatic desire not to intervene in a particular case . |
| 25 | I have not only politically united the German people , but also militarily rearmed them , and I have further attempted to tear up page for page that Treaty , which contained in its 448 articles the most base violations ever accorded to nations and human beings . |
| 26 | Note that we have not so far specified the wire thickness of either ring . |
| 27 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 28 | WE HAVE NOT SO FAR MENTIONED one of Dr Carey 's most important responsibilities . |
| 29 | efforts to introduce literacy have not so far examined the question as to when it is right for particular students to begin reading and writing |
| 30 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |