Example sentences of "[is] that [pers pn] has [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat .
2 Her first crime is that she has n't clocked into an office for 16 years .
3 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
4 This solution induces vertigo if one thinks in terms of a self-contained realm of observation and inference ; does it mean that the most you can say of Einstein 's physics is that it has not yet been refuted , which can be said equally of ‘ Unicorns exist ’ ?
5 However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients .
6 The real failure of the Polytechnic is that it has not established a community of academics with a corporate identity and with sound machinery for democratic decision making .
7 But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’
8 Mair said calmly : The answer is that it has n't ; the publicity was premature .
9 My main worry is that he has n't brought interest rates down far enough .
10 The final insult is that he has not only forfeited his ‘ honest faith ’ in taking up with her but that his eyes have even deceived him about her beauty : she is ‘ foul ’ in every sense .
11 His fault here is that he has not organised enough feedback .
12 The implication is that he has not only been deeply disgusted by the political and social oppression in capitalist and colonial France , but has also been fatally attracted to the entirely new set of social relations apparently emerging in the post-revolutionary situation in the Soviet Union .
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