Example sentences of "have not [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study points out : ‘ There are uncomfortably strong reasons for supposing that industry in Britain has not adopted microelectronics to the fullest extent possible and that in consequence it is already tending to fall behind our leading competitors . ’ |
| 2 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 3 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 4 | This embraces all overseas companies , but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties . |
| 5 | This means that your body has not produced antibodies to HIV , so you probably have not been infected by the virus . |
| 6 | ‘ Repetition in the face of failure has not added credibility to this forecast , ’ the report noted drily . |
| 7 | Freud 's reply is that the research method of psychoanalysis has revealed that religion has not helped men to be happy , nor moral , nor cultured and intelligent . |
| 8 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 9 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 10 | Perhaps , by her action , to convince him that she had not turned traitor to the King . |
| 11 | However , the following day , when the floorboards were removed to examine the beam , it was found to be so deeply cracked in two places that they ascribed the fact that it had not given way to a ‘ wonder of [ God 's ] providence ’ . |
| 12 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 13 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 14 | As Owen had not appointed Yussuf to his service in the first place but Yussuf had appointed himself , this seemed beside the point . |
| 15 | He had plenty of faults , but she had not believed falseness to be among them . |
| 16 | He would , however allow some 570 Austrian , Finnish , Portuguese , Swedish and Swiss nationals to leave because those countries had not sent forces to the Gulf . |
| 17 | The mother had not had access to her since January 1987 . |
| 18 | In March 1991 , a bank as unpaid mortgagee had taken possession of the debtor 's business premises and he had not had access to them since that date . |
| 19 | On Feb. 26 the Chief Prosecutor announced that charges of diversion of public funds against Honecker were being dropped since he had not had access to an account holding money paid by West Germany to buy the freedom of East German political prisoners . |
| 20 | They had not taken exception to it before , so why start now ? |
| 21 | It found that Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield , president and general secretary respectively of the NUM , had not used donations to miners to pay off their own home loans . |
| 22 | Despite low incomes they had not switched priority to the long-term needs of their households . |
| 23 | He had not expected Wang to be so upset , so patently indignant . |
| 24 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 25 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 26 | Wittikind , who had not sworn fealty to Charles , had returned from his exile in Denmark to arouse his countrymen and a huge Saxon host had attacked the fort at Karlstadt , taking revenge for the destruction of the sacred Irminsul and Charles ' other ravages of Saxony . |
| 27 | With an effort she said , ‘ Listen , Frank , and you can pass this on if you want to : I 've not given Sleet to Mr Kennedy , nor sold it to him . |
| 28 | She has but I 've not had time to er assess her yet . |
| 29 | From the gallery , the feverish gaze of Diniz Vasquez held no recognition ; but still he had n't touched fire to his weapon . |
| 30 | Lydia was wondering why Elizabeth had n't asked April to her dinner party , and also why she had been so silent on the previous evening and had left so early . |