Example sentences of "[subord] yet been " in BNC.

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1 260 troubadours , tap-dancers and persons with flutes , sheet music and accompanying ghetto-blasters fall foul of this law every year-though no one has as yet been prosecuted for playing an irksome Walkman-zzzsssss zzzsssss-on a train , and , evidently , the ruling does not apply to the operators of the Underground themselves .
2 Nothing , in fact , could surpass the splendour those magnificent crowns of green , metal-sparkling crystals , which Mr Nicholson has contributed to the Exhibition ; they certainly represent the finest products of this new industry which have as yet been seen , and are at the same time significant symbols of the success which has rewarded the exertions of this distinguished manufacturer .
3 CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 .
4 I have not as yet been ‘ stuck ’ for a particular design , or stitch .
5 At a more intimate and personal level , the balance between independence and dependence raises fascinating issues which have as yet been little explored in relation to old age .
6 ‘ Dr Proctor has been kept in seclusion temporarily in the time-locked underground strongroom of the Anchorage branch of the GenTech Nomura Agricultural Loan and Trust Co , and has not as yet been able to confer with his lawyers or issue a public statement .
7 However , there have as yet been no official state decrees , announcements or acts of recognition to this effect .
8 There has as yet been no well thought-out conception of the layout of the Tretyakov Gallery , which has been disrupted by the reconstruction of the old building .
9 The character of the Japanese colonial empire has not as yet been investigated with the thoroughness revealed in the analyses of the British , French and Dutch colonial territories .
10 This facility can be used to indicate individual items in a set of data that have to be treated in a special way , different from the majority of items in the set ; a special case is " undefined " items , which have not as yet been assigned a value .
11 Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies .
12 She had not as yet been officially informed of Louise 's existence .
13 It is aimed primarily at local authority members and officers who have not as yet been closely involved in European Community issues but who recognise that 1992 will bring important changes of policy and practice .
14 According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status .
15 Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " .
16 Gibbons is believed to be planning a realignment of portfolios , elevating the environment and lowering the life sciences in the OSTP hierarchy , but only one of his choices for the four vacant associate directorships has as yet been cleared by the White House and nominated by the president .
17 The main target at the height of the riots in 1802 was the gig mill , but that was because very few shearing frames had as yet been introduced .
18 But I regret that nowhere has any formal green belt as yet been proposed .
19 However , there has as yet been very little work on the public acceptability of the various technologies beyond generalisations concerning , for example , likely responses to the visual intrusion of windmills .
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