Example sentences of "[verb] not happen " in BNC.

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1 The public perception of Amnesty has also changed and this has not happened by accident .
2 That has not happened .
3 The reason this has not happened is that Eurotunnel 's fares fed into the model are not based on its costs .
4 The returning emigres hope for a clean sweep but this has not happened anywhere in Eastern Europe where the price of reconciliation has always been a measure of compromise .
5 So far this has not happened .
6 It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right .
7 The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession .
8 Well , it just has not happened , and when they have decided on a theme , it has been so late at night that Ministers have not been told , ’ said one disgruntled insider .
9 It has not happened yet . ’
10 What all the wise promised has not happened , and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass .
11 This change has not happened overnight .
12 Although the results achieved by the Leeds adjournment system appeared to favour its widespread adoption , this has not happened , although adjournment has been pressed for in some parts of the country — for example , in South Wales — and has been regarded as useful in certain cases by many authorities .
13 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
14 But it has not happened this way .
15 Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes .
16 The team called the study preliminary but there are apparently no plans for a follow-up , and the planned publication of the results has not happened .
17 They are negotiating with Canada to allow them to do it there , but it has not happened yet and the weapons are due here in six months time .
18 ‘ Anyone who comes into the monarchy should play second fiddle to their royal half but this has not happened .
19 Firms can appeal against any Review Committee decision but , so far , this has not happened .
20 At the time it was hoped that eventually it would be possible to refine the quantitative distinctions between the performance of men and machines so that allocation of function decisions would be unambiguous ( Wuffeck and Zeitlin , 1962 ) , but this has not happened .
21 But this has not happened .
22 We shall carry on as if it has not happened .
23 It is therefore no legal answer to the ejectment to say that the contingency provided for has not happened .
24 The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled .
25 This simply has not happened .
26 This has not happened and it never will .
27 We had planned an edition of the Newsletter in June but this has not happened .
28 That has not happened .
29 I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened .
30 That has not happened .
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