Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] yet [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ‘ phoney war ’ was still continuing , the outlook was sombre : bacon , butter and sugar rationing was introduced that month , and people were not yet adjusted to the blackout . |
| 2 | He had a ‘ gut feeling ’ , he said , that the American people were not yet committed to war , and so he urged Mr Bush to pursue a meeting in Baghdad between James Baker , the secretary of state , and Saddam Hussein — as well as finding a date on which Iraq 's foreign minister could come to Washington . |
| 3 | Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force . |
| 4 | Sadly , pregnant girls were not yet flocking to this club , even after a launch day at the civic centre , and radio advertising . |
| 5 | During the inter-war period , the quasi-autonomous model of administration ( the quango ) was not yet geared to any effective imposition of a programme of this kind upon the universities , or the schools of English within them . |
| 6 | But Clare was not yet accustomed to a life in which ice cream , sherry , and a telephone were luxuries . |
| 7 | Cobbett indicates that , at least in Kent , the working class was not yet reconciled to exchanging a cottage on earth for a mansion in heaven : ‘ they appeared to me to be thinking much more about getting houses for themselves in this world first : just to see a little before they entered , or endeavoured to enter , or even thought much about , those ‘ houses ’ of which the parson was speaking ; houses with pig-styes and little snug gardens attached to them , together with all the other domestic and conjugal circumstances . ’ |