Example sentences of "have not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 2 | This record though , has not at all reduced the importance of output and employment in small units of production . |
| 3 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 4 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 5 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 6 | Th the the other thing erm reference that this other manager has not at no occa on no occasion has that car been used for company use . |
| 7 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 8 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 9 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |
| 10 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 11 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 12 | The stopped chamfer template has not to my knowledge been marketed , readers who want one will just have to make their own . |
| 13 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 14 | The profession has not to date , unlike the world of venture capital , perceived any practical advantages to be obtained from their use . |
| 15 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 16 | Last month , after checking with the experts in Moscow , we felt compelled to publish the disappointing news that Ivan the Terrible 's library has not after all been found , whatever Pravda and The Times might say . |
| 17 | A few are wondering whether to go at all , whether the festive season has not after all been too tiring , whether a night in slippers in front of the television with a bowl of soup might not be a wiser choice than the doubtful prospect of a crowded room . |
| 18 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 19 | But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past . |
| 20 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 21 | That is why the arms-for-Iraq case has caused such interest at Westminster , even if it has not in the rest of the country . |
| 22 | This has not in any way curtailed enthusiasm for the principle that good design is based upon utility among its acolytes in London 's Design Centre or the Boilerhouse project of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , where beauty through ergonomics may still be an avowed aim . |
| 23 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 24 | Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour . |
| 25 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 26 | Burke has great information , and great command of language ; though , in my opinion , it has not in every respect the highest elegance . ’ |
| 27 | The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right . |
| 28 | Much of this apparent reduction of paid labour has not in fact disappeared but simply been transferred to the unpaid domestic sphere . |
| 29 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 30 | In this respect it is interesting to note that the new location of the interposed colon has not in any way altered the inherent motility characteristics of that segment . |