Example sentences of "[not/n't] yet [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she is also fearful , at least when she is younger ; power appears as the witch , the nightmare , the fascinating but terrifying darkness , and is not yet recognized as part of her own psyche . |
| 2 | Cheques credited in the cash book but not yet presented for payment to the bank . |
| 3 | Cheques drawn but not yet presented for payment £131.00 ; standing orders shown as paid on the bank statement but not entered in cash book £82.00 ; cheques entered in cash book but not yet paid into the bank £64.00 . |
| 4 | Beyond the wall there was nothing but the wildwood , a tangle of small oaks and patchy flowers , not yet destroyed by winter . |
| 5 | The night sky , brilliant with stars , was not yet touched by dawn , although a bright half-moon was low in the eastern sky . |
| 6 | The perfect simulation which has been suggested but not yet implemented in process control , power generation and air traffic control would be to have two identical control rooms and two crews coming on duty . |
| 7 | With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age . |
| 8 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 9 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 10 | Tektronix sees a ready market among banking , financial services , insurance and utilities industries that have adopted an IBM-compatible Token Ring network : although these markets have not yet embraced X technology , Tek reckons they would benefit from the technology immensely . |
| 11 | These are the only trees around the town which have not yet gone for firewood . |
| 12 | Her erotic bite and delirious extravagance with language made the pleasure she delivered truly satisfying ; not yet tortured into plaisir . |
| 13 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 14 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 15 | However , the location of planets not yet released from survey classification was information restricted to members of the Survey Service . |
| 16 | As for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , signed at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982 ( Cmnd. 8941 ) , of which the Community is a signatory but which has not yet entered into force , it contains provisions similar to article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention of 1958 ( see articles 91 and 94 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Come now , chéri , my guests will be arriving before long and we are not yet changed for dinner . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The product module issue is not yet known to LIFESPAN . |
| 20 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 21 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |