Example sentences of "we have [adv] yet [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 've written two articles now in a series that 's supposed to be practical and is intended to get you knitting on your ribber and we 've not yet knitted a single row .
2 ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’
3 In the early seventies the first indications were already apparent that inflation might increase sharply , although we had not yet reached such runaway rates as 30 per cent .
4 We had not yet met Odd-Knut , but his voice was friendly and competent .
5 I asked the inspector if there were any dogs we had n't yet seen .
6 After all , I pointed out , lunch was the one date we had n't yet tried .
7 In principle , and in theory , it may be appealing to believe that we can all unite and go along together with common defence and foreign policies , but the reality — and after the Gulf war , I must say , the experience , too , to some extent — suggests that we have not yet developed the degree of cohesion and common purpose that must must be a prerequisite for common foreign and defence policies .
8 However , we have not yet demonstrated the theoretical assertions that certain patterns are impossible and we shall do this shortly .
9 We have not yet examined the implications of the structural or cost implications of this proposal in detail , but it is hoped to have preliminary drawings and outline cost estimates available prior to any Board Meeting called to discuss this issue .
10 I enclose a Christmas card for Wilson Efren Ruiz , although we have not yet heard whether he received the greetings and small gift which we sent last Christmas .
11 We have not yet compared ‘ It 's me ‘ , said by the victim of amnesia in hope of recognition ’ with ‘ I 'm here ’ in reply to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , in respect of having a meaning as distinct from a use .
12 A British Gas spokesman said : ‘ We have not yet received any communication from the emergency committee .
13 If it appears useless then we have not yet understood its function in the order of things : it is not yet woven into a personally cohesive pattern of ideas and events .
14 ‘ Our ’ was born on the 11 th of Sept. , so we have not yet broken the all female barrier … she 's a healthy 8lbs. 13ozs. & giving & 4/5 hours space between feeds .
15 We have not yet concluded whether that work should be in the form suggested by Mr. Robert McNamara or be carried out in other ways .
16 A graduate in journalism from North Carolina , he is 33 but says we have not yet seen the best of Beck .
17 The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ .
18 We have a reason of fairness , as we just noticed , for that checkerboard strategy , and if we have no reason of justice against it , our present practice needs a justification we have not yet secured .
19 Unfortunately I am unable to give you a firm price for the software as we have not yet completed the development stage , but it will be somewhere in the region of 65 .
20 We have not yet completed the Common Market .
21 However , we can not exclude the possibility that there might be some other form of matter , distributed almost uniformly throughout the universe , that we have not yet detected and that might still raise the average density of the universe up to the critical value needed to halt the expansion .
22 Thus we can use the existing research to help us find our empirical measures for the effects of client participation on effectiveness in social work , but we have not yet achieved our aim .
23 We have not yet announced legal steps and our inclination is to work with the system , if we can .
24 Such images may be the food which fuels paintings and stories , or they may seem to be glimpses into an unknown world , one that we have not yet met .
25 Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ?
26 The archive director , Sergei Mironenko , said : ‘ We have offers from publishing houses , but we have not yet made our choice . ’
27 Next year the full year effect of the revenue budget one point five five million , already two hundred thousand short , the estimated loss of income from reduced placements will now put another eight hundred thousand on that er , so there will be a million next year , so I have to tell you there is a gap of one point three million pounds in the social services budget which we have not yet faced .
28 But we have not yet reached any incest taboo .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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