Example sentences of "not gone " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The hovels and the vennels ’ of the nineteenth-century Scottish city have been projected into the sky ; the lower depths of the Thirties have not gone from urban Britain .
2 And the swarm of people flowed down the path , stumbling on stones where a burn ran in winter or after thunderstorms , between the silvery wands of rowans with their clusters of blood-drops and the quivering tapestry of the alders , down into the Tay which ran from the west like molten iron , too flashing bright to look at , and over the Tay , wet to the waist ; the girls and boys who had not gone home were prancing and shrieking when they fell full length .
3 The Boeing machinists have not gone on strike since 1977 .
4 Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early .
5 As glasnost has its way , and Khrushchev 's ‘ rehabilitation ’ proceeds apace , the occasion has not gone unnoticed .
6 ‘ How are things at 6 Commando area , Piper ? ’ he enquired , ‘ The attack by the Black Watch has not gone too well judging by the number of wounded passing through here ! ’
7 Evading questions about how he proposed to resist the will of virtually the whole Arab and international community , he said that Lebanon had not gone through 15 years of civil war , and given thousands of martyrs , for the dishonourable settlement the world was offering .
8 Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers .
9 However the government has not gone as far as it might have .
10 This has not gone down too well with the Torinese , who want a more prestigious side to inaugurate their new stadium .
11 The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states .
12 The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available .
13 So John Emburey was handed the captaincy that could well have been his years earlier if he had not gone to South Africa in 1982 , thereby losing the Middlesex captaincy to Gatting after Mike Brearley retired .
14 He left unexplained why , if that was his view , he had not gone under his own steam somewhat earlier .
15 That theology has not gone unchallenged , of course .
16 If 1 Samuel 4 left them asking whether they could still regard themselves as the people of God , chapters 5 and 6 reassured them that their God had certainly not gone over to the Babylonians .
17 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
18 Even if they have not gone through this early stage of becoming interested in dieting , women often find that after the birth of a baby they have a little excess fat to lose and this often marks the beginning of an obsession with shape and with dieting .
19 It had not gone according to plan .
20 Perhaps prejudice now has other targets , but it has not gone away .
21 ‘ I presume they have not gone too short , ’ remarked one dealer .
22 The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards .
23 This suggests that either educational reform has just not gone far enough or that , although improved educational standards constitute an important development goal , they can only be effective when accompanied by structural changes in the rest of society .
24 In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms .
25 When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned .
26 Drew 's landlady , Mrs Mary Goodhall of 9 Kings Meadow , Reading , said that Drew had not gone out that evening until 6.10 .
27 However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise .
28 By the time of the Uprising such ventures had not gone beyond examples of what theoretically could be done .
29 ‘ I 'm not gone away , sure , I 'm here .
30 Ludens had found space and time , amid his new sensations , to feel very sorry that he had not gone to see Franca when she had , so unusually , as he realised just afterwards , invited him .
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