Example sentences of "not [conj] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donovan told the jury that he was not and never had been a homosexual . |
| 2 | It was not and never had been a question of wages . |
| 3 | There is not and never has been a ‘ right ’ to demonstrate . |
| 4 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 5 | Miss T. was never accepted into that faith by baptism or otherwise and therefore , as the sect has asserted in a statement to the press , ‘ T. is not and never has been one of Jehovah 's Witnesses . ’ |
| 6 | Thirdly , the application of the rules of natural justice , prior to the introduction of fairness , was not and never has been uniform in its operation . |
| 7 | As used within the collateral fact doctrine this does not and never has meant only what I have termed the Y question , the question of what is , in fact , a fair rent given the existence of a furnished tenancy . |
| 8 | ‘ What I want is not and never has been important . |
| 9 | However what , what I think is the most important aspect of this , the communist party is not and never has been a party in the normal sense of the term , it 's a closed shop for the ruling establishment of the Soviet Union and therefore it 's quite simply incompatible with politics . |
| 10 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously not , but I am not and never have been Mrs Smith , and there is nothing to prove differently . ’ |
| 12 | Despite what you seem determined to think , I am not and never have been promiscuous . ’ |
| 13 | But he does not as yet have it . |
| 14 | We do not as yet have full details of the standard assessment tasks which will be used at the ages of seven and eleven and subsequently ; if they do not provide a means of screening for learning difficulty , and identifying the nature of the difficulty , a significant opportunity will have been missed . |
| 15 | Even those who had arrived in early 1939 or before did not as yet have complete command of English and this made communication with their new and sometimes reluctant hosts difficult . |
| 16 | ‘ I was speaking metaphorically — they do not as yet have morning sessions . ’ |