Example sentences of "have n't [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Erm going back to my point that the existing development plan system has n't served Selby District particularly well .
2 Oscar has n't employed you for twenty-five years and kept his counsel . ’
3 She has n't pressed Rewind .
4 Has n't swallowed the nut .
5 ‘ Not that that 's much of a road to speak of , ’ the Brigadier went on , But the family has n't lived there since before the war-there were German and then English soldiers billeted here during the second war … ’
6 Israel 's well-equipped military has managed to keep a lid on the uprising degenerating into chaos , but it has n't defeated the armies of stone-throwing youths .
7 So , winter moorings have to be overhauled , making sure that the chain has n't become too worn and that shackles are secure .
8 There 's hardly a wildlife film-maker who has n't become intimately acquainted with at least one species of tick , and as ticks prefer the softer , warmer parts of the body , the acquaintance is sometimes very intimate indeed .
9 But wha what 's y what 's your opinis opinion I mean you 're talking about erm the er marriage from er er er spiritual standpoint from a christian standpoint and here we have the man who erm if he became king would be head of the Church of England assuming it has n't become disestablished by then .
10 It 's nice and cool inside the cellar , and not damp , though I guess it can only be just above the water table , and my father seems to know what he 's doing and is confident that the explosive has n't become unstable , but I think he 's nervous about it and has been ever since the Bomb Circle .
11 Well , they erm , they use the latest techniques , agriculture has n't become , er , has n't stagnated in the presence of protectionism , because there 's always been an incentive there for farmers to maximize their yields .
12 He has n't become a bad manager overnight .
13 But although the centre has n't gathered everything under one roof , if it has n't got the information , it now reckons it can tell inquirers where to find it .
14 Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ .
15 In five weeks only we 'll be on our ‘ summer ’ holiday at Dornie — there will be trouble if it has n't cheered up by then .
16 It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already .
17 ‘ The hearing has n't troubled him at all .
18 It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee .
19 ‘ And it has n't blown up yet , ’ Keith jokes .
20 ‘ Right , it has n't blown up .
21 PAUL Stewart hopes he has n't blown his chances of an England re-call for next month 's friendly in Spain .
22 ‘ Oh God , ’ I replied , launching myself at the Moroccan fabric , ‘ he has n't blown the gaff on my war wound , has he ?
23 He has n't worn too well , to be honest .
24 It 's Norman 's 13th year at Chelsea , but the thrill of showing at the country 's premier flower show still has n't worn off .
25 And voluptuous girls are n't the only ones to benefit , for what woman has n't worn that wonderfully comfortable ‘ borrowed from the boyfriend ’ look .
26 No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ?
27 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
28 The Treasury has n't understood the role of manufacturing industry .
29 After 10 years at top level , it 's a pity that Ben still has n't understood that you can never be the best climber sin the world , because there is always someone who will do something better in a given area of the sport .
30 Safly and hardle are both in the -ly suffix group ; but the child who misspells safly seems to understand about the suffix -ly and so is potentially a better speller than the one who has n't understood the suffix and produces hardle .
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