Example sentences of "be [not/n't] yet [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ghanaian novelist , Kwasi Armah , gave the title The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born to a novel he published in 1969 . |
| 2 | ‘ They are not yet accustomed to him ’ , and he added prophetically , ‘ … but you will see later on , they 'll all want Modigliani , and in the meantime he has no money and he suffers … |
| 3 | However , there is little doubt that people are not yet accustomed to the idea of paying fees and are tempted to avoid it even when the final result may be better . |
| 4 | ‘ It is very early days and a lot of people are not yet used to the new system , ’ said Mr Docherty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sadly , pregnant girls were not yet flocking to this club , even after a launch day at the civic centre , and radio advertising . |
| 9 | It is not yet known to what extent the original provisions contained in Part V will remain unchanged when the full provisions on unlisted securities are finally implemented . |
| 10 | The product module issue is not yet known to LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | Even development initiatives such as the NCET-administered mathematics project is not yet committed to any particular delivery platform . |
| 12 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But Clare was not yet accustomed to a life in which ice cream , sherry , and a telephone were luxuries . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |