Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times we may realise that we ‘ know ’ something in our mind that has not come about through reasoning . |
| 2 | At its most general , this view implies that the present perilous state of the world has not come about because its leaders ( or shadowy figures supposedly manipulating them ) are particularly warlike . |
| 3 | That this has not come about indicates either that everyone benefits from the system — which pluralist writers show is patently not so or that the democratic and neutral state is in fact nothing of the sort and that the scope for reform is severely limited . |
| 4 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 5 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 6 | Yes , this now celebrated affair , which I 've not spoken about before , did actually happen . |
| 7 | ‘ If Fraser had n't mucked about when he got back and found she 'd gone , we might have caught her before the boat sailed . ’ |
| 8 | There was one thing he had n't lied about , and that was her blood , how much he 'd loved and honoured it , that was n't a lie . |
| 9 | Which I had n't known about or my mother and otherwise living near enough they could have s done that school and gone through from five years to er fourteen . |
| 10 | There was a shoe in the flowerbed that I had n't known about . |
| 11 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 12 | How is it , then , that such findings have not brought about the introduction of a formal corrective mechanism ? |
| 13 | The word itself is so value-loaded that no judgement on whether contemporary trends in rural society have or have not brought about a ‘ loss of community ’ in the English village is realistically possible . |
| 14 | It 's not come about to any large degree an' there 's bin a lot o' firms that invested in what 's turned out ter be a pipe dream . |
| 15 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll not tolerate activities that can blow up in our faces which I have n't known about . ’ |