Example sentences of "have not at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 2 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 3 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 5 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 6 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 7 | He had not at that time known that specific request for permission to shoot at Yugoslavs in support of Military Government had come from Gen Keightley at 5 Corps in Austria . |
| 8 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 9 | However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament . |
| 10 | Despite the policy agreements , the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved . |
| 11 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 12 | These two are in a very small minority of black sportsmen who had not at some stage faced the distressing realization that they were black and so they were different and that difference could significantly limit their chances of access to the kind of resources available to others , prestige , affluence , esteem in the eyes of others . |
| 13 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 14 | I have not at any point heard Judge Tumim suggest that such a crime is appropriate . |
| 15 | I have not at any time or in any capacity written to Cllr Anderson . |
| 16 | Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one . |
| 17 | Few workers have not at some time or another been strongly attracted towards a client . |
| 18 | The estimate for ninety=four , ninety- five , is that there will be some one point three eight five million pounds required , but I er , have to say , that we have not , as in previous years , we have not at this stage received from the D F E er , details of of how the er indirect element of A N G will be calculated for next year , so the requirement may differ er in in due time . |