Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] come " in BNC.

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1 For instance , the milk , which is a fairly essential ingredient , has not necessarily come from Wensleydale .
2 As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking .
3 However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) .
4 The initiative for bodies of this sort has not only come from the centre .
5 I had not only come to faith .
6 Brenda had not long come to live in the country .
7 The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake .
8 In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine .
9 If it has not already come , First Interstate should be expecting a telephone call soon .
10 It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light .
11 Had the others still not not come into the room ?
12 7 Locus standi ( to whom is the duty owed ) Leaving aside the question of duties of third parties who receive confidential information which is dealt with below , the question of locus standi to bring a claim for breach of confidence has not often come before the courts .
13 In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours .
14 In fact our paths had not even come close until we both went to Binbrook .
15 Will he acknowledge that Government Departments have not even come near their own target of 3 per cent .
16 As er you 've not even come close to being involved in anything like it .
17 I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that example , which I had not previously come across .
18 Only if you do that will you be able to say with confidence that I am wrong , that what I am suggesting has not yet come to pass , that there is still time .
19 Mr Gorbachev 's clear message was that the time had not yet come to abolish the party 's monopoly of power , but that it might well do so when a new political structure had been worked out , and the present economic crisis overcome .
20 ‘ My hour has not yet come ’ ( John 2.3–4 ) .
21 I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) .
22 He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen .
23 The party had not yet come to terms with the departure of Mrs Thatcher and was suffering an identity crisis .
24 In practice , it was not the majority of the people who were to inherit power , but those who qualified by the ownership of property ; the ‘ people ’ had not yet come to include all inhabitants .
25 We have not yet come across anyone who has been able to offer a reasonable explanation for a rather disheartening introduction to diving .
26 Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open .
27 It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought .
28 Meanwhile the end of the world had not yet come .
29 Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well .
30 This structure had for long been partially responsible for delay in their legal recognition , since the civil law had not yet come to express it in terms it could comprehend .
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