Example sentences of "have not [verb] so " in BNC.

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1 Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far .
2 He was the leading European in both the Players ' Championship and at New Orleans — and even he admits he has not felt so confident since he approached the St Andrews Open of 1990 , which he won .
3 ‘ She has not said so . ’
4 The Welsh Health Planning Forum has developed differential targets along these lines for the NHS in Wales , but in general the rest of the United Kingdom has not progressed so far .
5 He has not done so . ’
6 That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA .
7 The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years .
8 Even now he has not done so , although the judge set aside the statutory demand nearly five months ago .
9 He has not done so and , therefore , it would be out of order for the Hon. Gentleman to pursue his present line of argument under this new clause
10 I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so .
11 If the hon. Gentleman believes that there is evidence of criminality , he should draw it to the attention of the police , if he has not done so already .
12 He has not done so either in his evidence to the Committee or on the Floor of the House .
13 The Austrian government , however , has not done so , claiming that closure would result in an inadequate electricity supply for the Czechoslovaks , it being too impractical and expensive to supply this from other sources .
14 The total has grown since the present service was set up in 1948 , although in fact the proportion of children in care per thousand of the total population under 18 has not altered so much .
15 ( In primary schools , there has been a similar move , but by no means to the same extent ; primary IT has not suffered so much , as a result , from a leaning toward mathematics and science . )
16 It has not proved so .
17 Our intimacy has not proceeded so far .
18 One of the reasons why the purchasing power parity theorem has not worked so well over short periods is that the influence on currencies of current account flows has diminished , while capital account transactions have assumed a greater role .
19 On Sept. 9 , Tajikistan became the 12th Soviet republic to declare independence ( only the Russian Federation , Kazakhstan and Turkmenia having not done so ) .
20 It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find .
21 Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation .
22 Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years .
23 By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease .
24 But she had not done so .
25 Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so .
26 Or had not done so .
27 The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one .
28 Miss Collier told Judge Bray in Bloomsbury county court that her maid often ordered flowers on the telephone on her instructions , but that she had not done so on this occasion .
29 When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so .
30 It would have been better for Andrewes ’ literary reputation , and far better for the history of the next reign if he had not done so .
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