Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 2 | During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion . |
| 3 | For a centre which has not previously offered SCOTVEC awards , approval as a SCOTVEC centre will be assessed against centre-related criteria . |
| 4 | For a centre which has not previously offered SCOTVEC awards approval will be assessed against the following centre-related criteria . |
| 5 | Shortly before this stage — around the tenth year but with a wide variability — the hypothalamus , a small area at the base of the brain , somehow " triggers " a small gland just below it ( the pituitary gland ) into producing two hormones which it has not previously produced . |
| 6 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 7 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 8 | MAS procedures when associated with an Information memorandum containing projections should be sufficient to enable us to be satisfied that the vendor has not recklessly included information which it does not have reasonable grounds to believe is correct . |
| 9 | Iraq has not even recognised Israel 's right to exist . |
| 10 | Two stadium-sized managerial talents holding half-time team talks while the rest of the soccer world has not even kicked off yet . |
| 11 | So far the Community has not even conceded that these projects are undermined by its own beef-dumping policy . |
| 12 | Yea , Joan thought , I would believe it — and he has not even kissed my hand ! |
| 13 | Zimbabwe has not even begun its promised privatisation programme , nor relaxed tight exchange controls . |
| 14 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |
| 15 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 16 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 17 | He has not even seen yet all the Khedivial estates . |
| 18 | He has not even seen my scrapbooks . |
| 19 | The reform program has not even raised the subject of the ultimate right of the party to control society . |
| 20 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary has not even tried to explain why the Government have changed their mind or why he has rejected the published judgment of his predecessor . |
| 22 | This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time . |
| 23 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 24 | He has not even learned that Britain is suffering from a recession bordering on a slump . |
| 25 | But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week . |
| 26 | Moreover , there is the likelihood that the experimenter has not even considered the possibility of such unintended effects on his subjects ' responses . ’ |
| 27 | In most Second and Third World countries this has not generally happened . |
| 28 | KPMG Peat Marwick has not independently verified any of the information contained herein . |
| 29 | And that is why , as it seems to me , fairness dictates that the instructions upon which he is directed to act should be expressed in language which is unambiguous and capable of being readily understood without reference to speculation , from material not obvious or readily available to the reader , about what Parliament intended to say but has not clearly said . |
| 30 | Despite our beliefs , pain has undermined his strength , he is not undefeatable , God has had his way , if he ever lost it , and Satan has not just fallen , from Heaven to Hell , but has buried himself further into the pit , he has fallen further in trying , once again , to achieve greater height than he deserved . |