Example sentences of "who have [not/n't] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But there is n't an officer of the crown who has n't had to put his hand deep in his own coffers to make good what should be crown expenses .
2 I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament .
3 There 's no one who has n't had to confront this problem . ’
4 a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it .
5 A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China .
6 To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home .
7 Joe , who had n't stopped to put anything on , was wearing only his long pants , his chest and feet bare .
8 His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him .
9 It was something a stranger might do — someone who had n't learned to take the view for granted .
10 Apart from the fact that Anjou was the hereditary enemy of the Normans , the man was a cold-blooded brute who had n't hesitated to let his army of barbarians ravage the Norman countryside even while his father-in-law was still alive .
11 ‘ Is Francesca still in New York ? ’ the brat was asking anxiously , and McLeish , who had not wanted to discuss her in this company , found he had to reassure Jamie about her whereabouts and probable date of return .
12 There was a hasty exodus by about twenty of those who had not waited to question the accuracy of the statement .
13 An interesting aspect concerning my widely-flung net for Pathfinders was that Groups after a short while sent crews who had not volunteered to join the PFF and , in many cases , had made a nuisance of themselves .
14 She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession .
15 Adam knelt beside her , thinking of Zosie and Zosie 's mother and stepfather who had not bothered to go to the police when their daughter unaccountably vanished .
16 The truth is quite otherwise — adult smokers are simply ex-teenage smokers who have n't managed to kick the habit . )
17 Look at all those ex-players who have n't managed to find security after the age of 35 .
18 LAUSD will remove all teachers not planning to further their education along with teachers who have not proven to have a passionate concern for the students .
19 Clearly , the expectation is that young people will be steered away from companies or employers who have not undertaken to provide good quality training .
20 The Republicans also picked up an estimated 14,000 votes from the Social Democrats and yet more from people who have not bothered to vote before .
21 Those who have not tried to sell — and particularly sell in a highly competitive market where there are very large contracts , the possession or loss of which can have a fatal effect on one 's whole business — do not know how testing it is of courage and nerve .
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