Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] not [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My hour has not yet come ’ ( John 2.3–4 ) . |
| 2 | It had come from the London Group of members , but the Operations Department have not yet come to a decision on this . |
| 3 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 4 | This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend . |
| 5 | In the villages of Pakistan , a woman working outside her home does not usually come across men unrelated to her and because of this , group or family identity is not endangered . |
| 6 | 7 Locus standi ( to whom is the duty owed ) Leaving aside the question of duties of third parties who receive confidential information which is dealt with below , the question of locus standi to bring a claim for breach of confidence has not often come before the courts . |
| 7 | The initiative for bodies of this sort has not only come from the centre . |
| 8 | Insights into child development do not only come from books . |
| 9 | Easy — someone for whom the composer 's name does not always come after the words ‘ Gilbert and ’ . |
| 10 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 11 | When I have to answer them I have some difficulty defending Members of the House , for whom I have a high regard and affection , if they behave badly , but such bad behaviour does not always come from the same side of the House . |
| 12 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 13 | He went down to breakfast and was relieved to find that the Captain had not yet come down . |
| 14 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 15 | If young children , dependent on an adult for basic needs , learnt that the adult does not always come back , then this has far-reaching consequences for them in their own adult experience . |
| 16 | The scheme of the 1954 Act is that if the lease is more than six months ( which is presumably the situation in your case ) and the premises are occupied for the purposes of your business , then the lease does not automatically come to an end . |
| 17 | ‘ The subject has not yet come up , ’ Silas drawled . |
| 18 | If the cascade is long enough , there may be an intermediate range ( the inertial sub-range ) in which the action of viscosity has not yet come in ; that is Dimensional analysis then gives where A is a numerical constant . |
| 19 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 20 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 21 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the end of the world had not yet come . |
| 23 | The emphasis in the French version does not just come from the repetition of je l'aimais bien , which also occurs in the original , but rather from the fact that the repetition is labelled as repetition : elle répéta . |
| 24 | Visual information does not only come in the form of specific letter identification . |
| 25 | But full autonomization and thus full cultural differentiation had not yet come to pass . |
| 26 | This is particularly significant for Marx since it means that the communal principle does not fully come into conflict with the interests of individual constitutive families as it did in the ancient city , a contradiction which ultimately led to further developments . |
| 27 | Any such application must be signed by the wife ( see the negligence case of Holmes v Kennard ( 1984 ) 128 SJ 854 ) if her rights of occupation have not otherwise come to an end . |
| 28 | Around the time of the renovations , there was some discussion on handing the school over to the state , but the management committee , headed by the rector , the Rev. Henry Moody , concluded : ‘ The time has not yet come … for the surrender of these schools and the forfeiting thereby of the gifts and labours of our forefathers . ’ |
| 29 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 30 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |