Example sentences of "yet [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Rupert Murdoch did not say that his Sky company and its associate Eurosport channel were ready yet to go head-to-head in rights fights with BBC when he announced a joint contract with them for England 's Test series in the West Indies this winter .
2 Pyramid OEMs including Ing Olivetti & Co SpA , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG and ICL Plc all have rights to rebadge the technology but have yet to go public , firm says .
3 Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity .
4 The last I heard you were still in Gloucester with the Empress Matilda , so , whether fitzAlan loves you also or has yet to lose interest in your pretty face and form , he will come for you .
5 Yet to continue trench warfare as before would be a mistake .
6 Euro MPs can claim travel expenses without producing receipts , yet to claim Income Support pensioners must supply a whole booklet of information .
7 The NIBA have yet to taste defeat in this championship which started three years ago , and following their 48 shot victory over the Bowling League of Ireland in their opening game the Parks are heading for their fourth successive title .
8 In the last quarter of the eighteenth century British population hit the critical rate of growth squarely in the middle , slow enough to maintain , or even slightly improve real wages and yet to encourage labour saving innovation , fast enough to keep down labour costs and yet to expand aggregate demand for food and mass consumer goods .
9 VW has yet to finalise specification and prices for the Polos , but it has said they will cost much the same as the models they replace .
10 The report suggests there is a glut of exstudents from 1990 and 1991 who have yet to find work , and these are adding to the problems faced by the most recently qualified .
11 Although Ashworth 's suggestion has been backed by a broad coalition of penal reform groups , and also by the Labour Party ( 1990 ) , it has yet to find favour with the judiciary , and was explicitly rejected by the government ( Home Office , 1990a : para. 2.20 ) .
12 ‘ I 've yet to pass Sabraxis ’ tests , ’ Lucien said , eager to accept , but afraid of doing so .
13 Although the day will inevitably come , we have yet to secure legislation appropriate to our real needs .
14 The government had yet to receive permission for this sale from creditor banks holding part of the airline 's assets as guarantees of earlier debts .
15 The new design , which Sun finished the week of November 16th , still has to be taped out and has yet to reach silicon .
16 The move has yet to win government approval .
17 It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth .
18 In this , and their inability yet to give colour , these small CRTs compare with LC TVs ( 1 ) .
19 Talks are still going on with Witches skipper Chris Louis , who has yet to put pen to paper .
20 Mr Kinnock has yet to put flesh on his ‘ big idea ’ .
21 While the likes of Brian Grant ( Aberdeen ) , Nicky Walker ( Hearts ) and Darren Jackson ( Hibs ) gained full international recognition for the first time , all have yet to negotiate weekend derby matches .
22 To place one item , one element , in relation to all the others , and yet to keep space open for further elements .
23 Yet to study literature , or poetry , in the hope of achieving these effects is perverse , like playing a game , not for the pleasure of the game , but simply in order to keep fit .
24 These arguments have yet to sway public opinion .
25 In East Sussex , which has yet to appoint care managers , assistant director Jim Graham reckons there will be some concerns about the types of job descriptions put together for the job .
26 Was it the faint smell of herbs and newly baked dough , the soft ticking of the wall-mounted clock which seemed both to mark the passing seconds and yet to hold time in thrall , the rhythmic moaning of the sea through the half-open door , the sense of well-fed ease conveyed by the two cushioned armchairs , the open hearth ?
27 Excluding the impact of mortgage rates , regarded as the best guide to the underlying trend , inflation rose 0.1 points to 5.8 per cent in September , which suggests that high interest rates have yet to subdue inflation significantly .
28 TURKISH GOVERNMENT YET TO LEARN PRIVATISATION
29 Toddlers have strong wills but have yet to learn self-control .
30 It seems illogical to require response to a treaty which adversely effects a third State , as in the instance of a territorial settlement when the third State also has a claim , and yet to regard lack of protest to an evolving principle of customary international law as acquiescence to it .
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