Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have not [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A younger man , I think — younger than Summerchild himself ; there is a firmness behind Summerchild 's deference which suggests that he is addressing someone not too senior — certainly one who has not yet served in the world of Royal Commissions and advisory units . |
| 2 | She was also aware of Angel , the Brit-hater , who had n't once eaten at the same table as her since she arrived , who was now riding harder and turning faster than any of the others , urging his pony on with great pelvic thrusts . |
| 3 | Michael Howard , then a Minister at the Department of the Environment , reported an opinion poll as having found that one-quarter of people who had not previously voted in local elections intended to vote in future as a result of the community charge ( interview on This Week , Next Week , 21 February 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 5 | She was wholly relieved that he had gone , for his absence enabled her safely to join her friends , to receive their questions and their anecdotes , and to hear of the brazen , wonderful audacity of Janice , who had not yet returned to the fold , and who had been seen leading , yes , leading her captive from the floor , in search of fresher air and darker night . |
| 6 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 7 | Anne may have been financially dependent on Joshua , who had not yet settled in his career and was never wealthy . |
| 8 | ‘ Twinky ’ , however , without question the fairest and most sporting player ever to don an Athletico shirt , was full of remorse and insisted that the referee , who had not even blown for a foul , send him off . |
| 9 | Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) . |
| 10 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 11 | The council was formed in 1979 under strong leadership guidance ( the only member who had not recently moved into the area , although a home-owner ) . |
| 12 | ‘ For Ludlow ! ’ repeated Joan who had not before heard of that place . |
| 13 | I always say that there are planetillions of humans in this galaxy who have n't even come to terms with being sapiens . |
| 14 | This year though we want to attract new supporters and search out people who have n't traditionally supported Save The Children as well as building on the commitment of our existing supporters . |
| 15 | Tickets will be on sale to gold members who have not yet applied for tickets , from 9am today . |
| 16 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 17 | The SDLP leader retorted : ‘ I do n't need advice from unionist politicians who have not only talked to paramilitaries , they have sat down with them , in order to achieve political objectives working together . ’ |