Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The barons have yet to devise a way of providing football without footballers and loyal fans are required to pay admission money , just as law-abiding citizens must pay their taxes . |
| 32 | Guests have only to step across the main promenade to reach the beach . |
| 33 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 34 | But not our advantage , least not yet : right-hand-drive versions have yet to get the go-ahead . |
| 35 | Norwegian scientists who have been testing the seas for several years have yet to detect any significant radioactive contaminating of fish , but they have not yet tested the water near the dumping sites . |
| 36 | But perestroika came late to the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and the reforms introduced over the past two years have yet to take effect . |
| 37 | Yet ants have yet to develop writing , and their major artefacts — their nests — can be demolished in minutes using a spade . |
| 38 | Governments have also to decide how to divide these resources between alternative uses : reducing emission of greenhouse gasses , building sea defenses , and so on . |
| 39 | Finally governments have also to bear in mind taxation rates in other countries when framing their own policies . |
| 40 | But under current legislation most factories have merely to use the ‘ best practicable means ’ to keep noise to a minimum . |
| 41 | Yet a spokesman at the department appeared recently to contradict this statement , saying the study is not yet finished and officials have still to report to ministers . |
| 42 | Looks like most British retailers have yet to clean up their act . |
| 43 | But a tour of Tokyo 's night spots suggests that the lack of business confidence shown in official surveys has yet to dampen the spirits of the massed corporate revellers . |
| 44 | Eight per cent finished in October , but at the time of writing many of the October course organisers had still to return questionnaires to [ MS for coding and analysis . |
| 45 | Could it be that the Universe 's first white holes have yet to form ? |
| 46 | But , as will be seen , such liberal theologians have yet to achieve power within the political religious establishment . |
| 47 | Perhaps the last word should be left to the acerbic ‘ DS ’ in the TLS : ‘ The desperation of this roster — some of the writers have yet to publish their first novels — is self-evident . |
| 48 | Many of Ireland 's waters have yet to see a fly , lure or baited hook . |
| 49 | Health reforms have yet to travel through the system . |
| 50 | Even now the many and various suppliers of loam-based composts have still to discover how to get their products to customers in a state that is fit to use . |
| 51 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |
| 52 | Equality of the sexes has yet to arrive in the world of birds . |
| 53 | The worst stories were those from the people living in bungalows having nowhere to move to . |
| 54 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 55 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 56 | In North Yorkshire all the wives had already attended courses whilst in Wester Ross and Orkney the majority of wives had yet to attend a course . |
| 57 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |
| 58 | These arguments have yet to sway public opinion . |
| 59 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
| 60 | While he did not propose any form of relativism , Stark did suggest that , unlike the natural sciences , the human sciences have yet to grasp the absolute — that which is ‘ universally human ’ . |