Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Ball , who has not played since being carried off injured in the semi-final win over Norwich , is back in contention for a place . |
| 2 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 3 | The Woonerf , though without doubt a valuable contribution to safe living areas , has not proved to be a universal solution . |
| 4 | At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case . |
| 5 | With very few exceptions , however , this has not proved to be the case , largely because Latin American states have retained a high degree of integration with , and dependence on , the developed capitalist economies . |
| 6 | The index has not proved to be a reliable feature of either constipation or diarrhoea . |
| 7 | The January 1989 white and fawn dog finished second in a 631 metres open at Sunderland , and switching to Middlesbrough 's inside hare has not proved to be any problem . |
| 8 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 9 | Since July 1984 , death from alcoholism has not had to be reported to the coroner . |
| 10 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 11 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 12 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 13 | It was quite a car and who has n't dreamed of being a repo man ? |
| 14 | But on the other hand they 're not having to deal so much with another executor there is n't there has n't got to be so much to and fro correspondence and therefore the workload will be somewhat less and that 's likely to balance the extra responsibility element . |
| 15 | You know , but there not , there lovely , lovely people and they 're do anything for you , but we say to them , you know , oh well life 's boring and your know sort of , and , but , life has n't got to be boring , when you 've got no money wor worries life should n't be boring . |
| 16 | As things have turned out it has n't proved to be a serious drawback so far ; and your mother , who has temporarily left home , is very happy for me . |
| 17 | Sadly , of course , it has n't proved to be the entire answer because the original FOND resource can only cope with the four basic stylistic variations ; Plain , Italic , Bold and Bold Italic . |
| 18 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 19 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 20 | He had not asked to be made ‘ controller ’ of the Pessarane Behesht cell in Paris . |
| 21 | Nevertheless five men , who had been imprisoned because they deliberately and flagrantly disobeyed the orders of the NIRC , and so imperilled the rule of law and ‘ our whole way of life ’ , were released although they had not asked to be released and had made clear that they had no intention of apologizing to the court for their behaviour or of desisting from that behaviour . |
| 22 | They were very young , and totally dependent on the Durbeyfield couple : six helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all , much less to be part of the irresponsible Durbeyfield family . |
| 23 | By looking at him now you could sense that future , and his eyes reminded you that he had not asked to be born . |
| 24 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |
| 25 | What they had not bargained for was the prejudice of the trial judge , Lord Grant , who , as Nicky relates in his recently published memoirs , made it plain from the outset that he believed , as the police believed , that Meehan was guilty . |
| 26 | What he had not bargained for was that the ‘ fusion ’ cell would be deemed a radioactive hazard and so be prevented from getting the urgent clearance for transport across international borders . |
| 27 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 28 | One thing I had not bargained for was the amount of Gaelic spoken in the country districts . |
| 29 | We had not bargained on being trapped in our own hall . ’ |
| 30 | She had not appeared to be surprised when he told her what he intended to do , nor had she put up any resistance . |