Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] have not " in BNC.

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1 It is clear that we have not only substantially increased expenditure on the national health service but that we are the only party proposing credible reforms , the results of which are already showing .
2 But it was clear that they had not given the subject much thought , nor did they feel there was any need to .
3 Although Glasgow District Council ( GDC ) supported Heatfest , they made it clear that they had not the resources to implement any radical outcome .
4 The arrest on May 13th of Mitsuhiro Yanagitani , formerly branch manager for Daiwa Securities at Kunitachi , in west Tokyo , and Ueki Kenjiro , of its Nagoya branch , makes it clear that they have not .
5 But he was to find no lasting romance again and , as the years went by , it became clear that he had not lost his love for Gabrielle .
6 The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance .
7 As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow .
8 It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room .
9 It was clear that she had not yet made her point .
10 When Greg returned with the snowball , Margaret Seymour-Strachey had shifted her position so as to be better shielded from the rest of the Saloon Bar , and it was clear that she had not managed to get control over herself , for she was now sobbing away quietly .
11 Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post .
12 I am afraid that it has not been a success and that has certainly not been for want of effort from him but I think we just have to write that one off .
13 At first , she was afraid that he had not turned up because he was not waiting , as he had promised , by Mr Bishop 's kiosk .
14 The cruel would say they are all a load of balls and the more open-minded that they have not had a fair trial ( in cricket terms : a decent net ) .
15 Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing .
16 Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident .
17 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 .
18 Anne felt guilty that she had not attempted to see Kathleen after Ella 's injury .
19 She felt guilty that she had not yet been to visit Miss Grimes in her bed-sitting room somewhere off the Finchley Road , really within easy distance of where she lived , so there was really no excuse .
20 Beth was oddly relieved that she had not confided in Cissie ; not that she did n't trust the girl , but because she had never spoken to anyone about her family , or her reason for leaving them all those years ago .
21 Ray Pierce — chief executive since January 1992 — has settled in well and Mr Aldous is relieved that he has not suffered the rebuff that some non-accountancy managers experience when they join professional firms .
22 This use of dots with slurs is so consistent that I have not found a single instance where in this combination the dots were not clearly identifiable as such .
23 Many supporters , I know , feel uneasy that Proby is returning and are dismayed that we have not seen the last of what the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus called ‘ The Headcase Half Back ’ .
24 Like Gauss he would publish only when he was convinced that he had not only mastered the subject but had thoroughly understood all its ramifications .
25 But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it .
26 She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died .
27 As he left the dance , he noticed Tess , who seemed a little sad that he had not chosen her .
28 The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well .
29 I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat .
30 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
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