Example sentences of "[noun pl] have not [vb pp] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the official party line remains that the Liberal Democrats would vote against a Queen 's Speech that did not contain a commitment to introduce proportional representation at Westminster , party strategists have not ruled out the option of abstaining . |
| 2 | The pubs had not let out yet , so it must be not be later than eleven . |
| 3 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 4 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 5 | Things had n't worked out quite the way she had imagined . |
| 6 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 7 | ‘ Things have n't worked out as I had hoped , ’ he started . |
| 8 | If there has been no irregularity , the law does not mend or amend contracts merely for the relief of those for whom things have not turned out well . |
| 9 | We know today that things have not worked out as Huey hoped . |
| 10 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 11 | Erm but it unfortunately things have not worked out with er this particular company . |
| 12 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that CATS have not sought out local-government co-operation : they have implemented little that would not in any case have occurred . |
| 13 | The justices have not set out in terms their findings under section 1 but they have considered all the aspects of the case in so far as I can see . |
| 14 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 15 | The most common complaint , however , was that the projects were n't working ; results had n't turned out as hoped , essential equipment had proved faulty ( or in some eases had n't arrived ) and students were left writing up why their project had n't worked out . |
| 16 | Their minds had not reached out to the terror of what had in fact happened . |
| 17 | a lot of the lab work done here anyway , everyone knows what the results should be , it just seems a waste of time because you know the equipment 's not good enough to get the results you should be getting , so you spend most of your time writing why your results have n't come out . |
| 18 | A motive for the killing of the father-of-four has yet to be established , although police have not ruled out a drugs link . |
| 19 | Children have not grown out of behaviours which were acceptable when they were much younger . |
| 20 | But it is certain that superstitious practices and pagan activities had not died out . |
| 21 | His decision should be binding … but students have n't ruled out an earlier pledge to take their fight to the High Court . |
| 22 | The water authorities have not ruled out the possibility of flooding large Parts of the Dales , however , and , ever greedier in their search for uplands to despoil and destroy , will have to be watched carefully . |
| 23 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 24 | Questions about the quality and price of commodities would seem to be natural applications for expert determination , but events have not borne out that assumption . |