Example sentences of "[not/n't] yet [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity .
2 Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed .
3 And the problem is that the left , inside and outside the Labour Party , and the trade union movement , have not yet measured up to that historic requirement .
4 As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat .
5 But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy .
6 Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation .
7 The formal circle of the old regime is represented in Repton 's cedar parlour ( Fig. 7a ) , where the servants have evidently not yet got round to setting the chairs back against the wall .
8 But she still stresses the necessity of an expert test — and the board 's concern that the information has not yet got through to all the householders in the area who are at risk .
9 At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had .
10 It came from the paper 's Atticus column , and was a couple of years old — it looked as if Bill had n't yet got round to filing the latest news on Puddephat .
11 ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’
12 which I have n't yet got on to cos I wanted to hear most , at least most of the arguments on this aspect of the case , although it 's got very in effect very little to do with the other , other , but it does n't see round , er I could get on with that to a degree , er , so I do n't mind too much , but I think Friday is , is asking to much from Mr
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