Example sentences of "[verb] not [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 | 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 . |
12 | He knew that , essentially , he had not yet utterly satisfied her and that was unbearable . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Probably they had not so much disappeared as retreated , with the local dialect , into the private and unofficial underworld of non-literate culture . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Note that we have not so far specified the wire thickness of either ring . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | WE HAVE NOT SO FAR MENTIONED one of Dr Carey 's most important responsibilities . |
23 | 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 |
24 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |
25 | We have not so far introduced the length of each step into our expressions . |