Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [adv] reached the " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , as many as four out of every five American homosexuals may have acquired such an immune deficiency which has not yet reached the full-blown AIDS stage .
2 In the pipeline is a Draft Ninth Company Law Directive , which has not yet reached the stage of a formal proposal and indeed has not progressed since 1985 .
3 The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states .
4 I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible .
5 It 's true that recycling of plastics has n't yet reached the scale of paper or glass , but the label of environmental enemy is undeserved .
6 That sort of application has n't yet reached the small shops where really the proprietor of the shop himself is only too well aware of when the baked beans is running out .
7 Consequently , although the brown water lapped the top of the front steps , it had not yet reached the interior .
8 Fortunately , his fame had not yet reached the gutters so the winos were not aware that they were providing material for a movie star 's performance .
9 His main point , which his immediate audience would not fail to grasp , was that the ‘ little child ’ had not yet reached the age of the ‘ bar Mitzvah ’ ceremony , or ‘ coming-of-age ’ , which within the Jewish culture meant that the ‘ little child ’ had no rights before the Law of God .
10 First , cases were occurring in which young people between 16 and 21 ( the then age of majority ) were living away from home and wished and needed urgent medical treatment which had not yet reached the emergency stage .
11 He had n't yet reached the Lock but there she was , sitting high up in the dunes , on a sandy shelf , half hidden among grasses and brambles .
12 If they have not yet reached the clicking stage , the sound stimulates them to speed up their development .
13 We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce .
14 The low-energy predictions of this theory are in such good agreement with observation that the theory is now generally accepted , even though we have not yet reached the energy at which the unification should take place .
15 Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds .
16 Meanwhile in France , Robert Mitze , general director of USL Europe Ltd , said , ‘ We 're having other discussions with potential partners in Europe , but we have n't yet reached the point where we can announce them . ’
17 And dresses are getting fuller — have n't actually reached the crinoline stage , but a more uncomfortable sort of stage where layers and layers of petticoats , so , over your undergarments you 'd wear like eight or nine flannel cotton petticoats to give an impression of fullness .
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