Example sentences of "[vb past] yet [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top of the list would be Television South-West , the West Country contractor , although Mr Romaine said that discussions had yet to be opened . |
| 2 | Strongholds of the so-called Dignity Battalions civil militia in Panama City had yet to be reduced , and some tough street fighting lay ahead , Pentagon officials said . |
| 3 | The details to be included in the public registers to be established under the bill had yet to be decided but he personally favoured ‘ more information rather than less . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Skubiszewski declined to go into detail , saying the agreement had yet to be accepted by both governments . |
| 5 | The only part of the globe not mentioned is the Antipodes , for Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander had not yet returned from their voyage with Captain Cook in the Endeavour and plants from Australia , New Zealand and the Pacific Islands had yet to be described . |
| 6 | Much had yet to be done in the study of nucleic acid chemistry . |
| 7 | Negotiations had yet to be concluded with the trade unions as to the timing of the redundancies , but Ms Kennedy quickly found another job . |
| 8 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 9 | The Dobson story had yet to be substantiated , and the family were still unavailable for comment . |
| 10 | At the time of writing ( 1989 ) full analysis of the model towns programme had yet to be completed . |
| 11 | Jones had tried various materials and what he now sought was rather clearly defined — are there neutrons of a specific energy or not ? — and his apparatus was almost completed and ready to go ; the chemists by contrast had to do a broader range of experiments as their problem was more subtle — is there fusion and if so by what process ? — and the necessary materials and apparatus had yet to be assembled . |
| 12 | Noorda suggested that while it had yet to be decided , these companies ' shares in Unix Labs would be exchanged for Novell shares . |
| 13 | Government officials said the UK 's exact contribution to the task force had yet to be worked out . |
| 14 | Similar thoughts may have crossed his mind one week into the run when , on the night set aside to entertain employees , families and friends of Irish Life — who were sponsoring the festival — Archaos refused to perform proclaiming to the gathered throng that they had yet to be paid . |
| 15 | There was much that might have been better concealed , not least the ugliness of wartime necessity that had yet to be cleared away . |
| 16 | I had yet to be disillusioned . |
| 17 | It was not : for , as we have seen , organised labour very soon and consciously became the necessary reciprocal to employing capital and so constituted with it the developed system which had yet to be called Capitalism . |
| 18 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 19 | This should not detract from the fact that several departments were making legitimate use of the improved facilities , though as one teacher noted there were subjects such as business studies where the potential had yet to be recognised . |
| 20 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 21 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |
| 22 | In the future , town planning was not just about scheme preparation for coordinated development , or the rational control of land use , or even spatial strategies for cities ; it was now to be involved in regional economic affairs , though just how had yet to be demonstrated . |
| 23 | She had yet to be impressed by the Eastern clergy , who not only countenanced belief in the miraculous powers of human teeth , but actually traded in bogus religious relics . |
| 24 | Though he offered to identify his sources to Chief Judge Platt in camera , Shaughnessy was only too well aware that the certainty he felt about Flight 103 had yet to be converted into a certainty he could prove in court . |
| 25 | Although recognising that AEA needed to be proactive in approaching possible privatisation many thought ‘ Why change now , whilst announcing that the BZW report had yet to be considered by DTI . ’ |
| 26 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 27 | The Great Hall had yet to be built , as had the tennis court and tilt yard . |
| 28 | This declaration was approved by the National Assembly on Jan. 15 , but its provisions had yet to be enshrined in law . |
| 29 | Japan 's security treaty with the USA was reported as being one of a number of issues upon which full agreement had yet to be reached . |
| 30 | China sought readmission in 1986 but its application had yet to be finally considered [ see pp. 34588 ; 35030 ; 37227 ] . |