Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a puzzle that has yet to be answered . |
| 2 | Beautifully constructed courses which immensely satisfy both student and teacher alike with their intelligence and vigour , they have set a standard for classroom work that has yet to be matched . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 4 | The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review . |
| 5 | If you look around for some field that has yet to be used in a crime story and then insist on using it when it has not filled you with enthusiasm , your book will be leaden . |
| 6 | His work retained a pronounced individuality and originality that has yet to be properly acknowledged . |
| 7 | The next event will take place in April , at a venue that has yet to be arranged , but will probably be in the Lothians . |
| 8 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 9 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 10 | GIS research into site selection for non-nuclear hazardous waste has been almost exclusively conducted in North America and has yet to be matched in the UK . |
| 11 | After six years , the Mulla report is still ‘ under consideration ’ by the state governments , and has yet to be laid before Parliament . |
| 12 | This type of situation may exist in other cases of language interaction , but it is not universal : in any event , the model seems " leaky " and has yet to be demonstrated to be valid in any bilingual community where code switching occurs . |
| 13 | Donald Lees is working away from home and has yet to be told about the sentence : |
| 14 | Many passsages in the Jewish scriptures refer to the way in which religious observance itself can become an enormous obstacle and has constantly to be overcome . |
| 15 | ‘ I have work to attend to , Master Corbett The inn-keeper 's body has been coffined and has now to be churched before the villagers become too drunk and dump him in the pond . ’ |
| 16 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 17 | No doubt people must learn hairdressing ; but until the subject crosses into physiology — and ceases therefore to be hairdressing — it is not education . |
| 18 | The literature in this area is fragmentary and tends either to be definitional or descriptive . |
| 19 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 20 | That was , and appears still to be , the view of Labour Members ; it is not the view , however , of those who shape policy on the Labour Front Bench . |
| 21 | They try to manage for themselves something that can not be managed , but needs only to be accepted with proper gratitude and clear insight into the nature of the giver . |
| 22 | The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better . |
| 23 | The third woman of world class is Marie Laure de Lorenzi , who wins everything in Europe but has yet to be persuaded that America is worth a detour . |
| 24 | This lesson appears to have been accepted in principle ( Department of Trade and Industry , 1988 , 1989 ) but has yet to be implemented . |
| 25 | Members of the US Congress and environmentalists are concerned that the agreement , which has been signed but has yet to be ratified , will encourage US companies to transfer operations across the border to Mexico to take advantage of lax enforcement of labour and environmental standards . |
| 26 | This process is not only one that occurs in everyday life , but has also to be carried out by scientists in the laboratory , or by coroners in coroners ' courts ( Atkinson 1978 ) . |
| 27 | Some of the signs , such as the quantity of berries on certain trees in autumn were for long-range forecasts , while still others could tell the weather for that very hour : ( The Shamrock is folding its garments before a heavy downpour ) is not only a picturesque saying but tends also to be accurate . |