Example sentences of "[not/n't] yet have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have had several barbel out of the swim since then , but not yet had another chance at a really big one . |
| 2 | It was the punters who remained in the stand that ‘ persuaded ’ the invaders to get off the field , by the simple expedient of throwing bottles and pies at them , beer-cans not yet having been invented . |
| 3 | As I walked out of the ward and round the red screen I felt as old as Humber and as worried as she was about my not yet having been fully trained . |
| 4 | The attractive odour may come from either ( or both ) of two sources : the young salmon which are still in the stream , not yet having migrated to the sea , and any other characteristic odours in the stream . |
| 5 | All major WordPerfect products will be developed for IBM OS/2 2.0 Although technically superior to Microsoft Windows and even offering Windows 3.0 software compatibility , OS/2 suffers from not having a large enough software base and not yet having reached a critical mass of users . |
| 6 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 7 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 8 | With on-site inspections , seals , analysis of materials , electronic surveillance and satellite links they cover some 95 per cent of the world 's nuclear installations outside the five nuclear weapon states — Britain , France , the Soviet Union and the United States , which all allow safeguards monitoring in a few of their civil installations , and China , which has signed a safeguards agreement but has not yet had a single inspection . |
| 9 | And he has made a lot of easy promises that he has not yet had to keep . |
| 10 | The official admitted that more prestigious types of education projects might seem more attractive than other , more mundane ones , but they have not yet had sufficient experience in ‘ selling ’ projects to be sure . |
| 11 | Wireless , the cinema and television had not yet had the opportunity to smooth down all individuality in the spoken word and local dialect still flourished . |
| 12 | The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one . |
| 13 | He has not yet had enough time to close the gap , to find a way of associating Conservative values with a public political culture . |
| 14 | At the end of your editorial ( ‘ Starting again ’ , 17 April ) you make the point that the Labour Party has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the recent election and this is a good reason to put back the choice of a new leader . |
| 15 | Those who have not yet had a surfeit of Monsieur Depardieu can see him in one of his period roles in the sumptuous Tout Les Matins Du Monde . |
| 16 | There was the point that the scientific community had not yet had time to confirm the phenomenon but this was dealt with summarily with a warning that would , in the following months , become a knee-jerk response of Utah fusion aficionados . |
| 17 | No mention was made of my helping with the editing , and when I enquired , I was told the programme was nowhere near that stage yet ; in fact , the producer had not yet had time to listen to the — what must be by now — at least four hours of tape . |
| 18 | I have not yet had a telegram of congratulation or even good wishes from her , but I bet I will . |
| 19 | In the absence of other worm supplies it may be hard to resist the temptation of feeding tubifex , particularly if one has not yet had any casualties following feeding . |
| 20 | In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it . |
| 21 | This is most likely to occur in weak sappy growth that has grown fairly recently , like a flower stem , and where leaves on that stem have not yet had time to make the carbohydrates and store the energy in the storage cells of the node . |
| 22 | One of the district 's few fundholders was concerned that he had not yet had enough information on how he will be able to buy community health services in April . |
| 23 | The more partners a man has had , the more likely it is that he will entertain fantasies about people with whom he has not yet had a sexual relationship . |
| 24 | But before Allison could even begin the immunotherapy , she had become pregnant again and — because she had not yet had the treatment — lost the baby eight weeks later . |
| 25 | My son has not yet had adequate lessons in French . ’ |
| 26 | By the way , I have received copies of the Dyfed consultation drafts on golf courses and windfarms , although I have not yet had time to read them . |
| 27 | Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate . |
| 28 | Motor experience is still unsatisfactory however and the benefits of our more selective underwriting procedures to improve the quality of our portfolio have not yet had their full effect . |
| 29 | In some Peel Park and Torness departments , for instance , TOP has not yet had the impact required to bring the programme up to the standard achieved at Hunterston . |
| 30 | The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry . |