Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |
| 2 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 3 | The Australians are a friendly , extrovert and untrammelled lot , so bureaucracy has not yet filtered through into the realm of photography . |
| 4 | Kenya , Uganda and Tanzania , the countries bordering the lake , have been reluctant to invest in preserving a fishing industry that has not yet suffered economically from the ecological damage . |
| 5 | This has not yet turned specifically against the institutions of the EEC . |
| 6 | But , unlike Mr Hussein , Iran has not yet stepped brazenly outside the law . |
| 7 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 8 | But she still stresses the necessity of an expert test — and the board 's concern that the information has not yet got through to all the householders in the area who are at risk . |
| 9 | Paradoxically the miriad-mind is the ‘ I ’ mind , the mind which does not simply observe , but enters into the essence of other substances or beings , be they people , animals , things or even the ghosts and spirits , angels and demons , which Reason itself has not yet driven out of the world we experience in waking and sleeping , in loving and in hating . |
| 10 | The evidence to the Select Committee suggests that the private sector has not only expanded well in terms of growing numbers and additional services , but of maintaining its assets . |
| 11 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 12 | Yet Malaysia has not always gained greatly from the sales of assets , such as shares in its airline and the container terminal at port Klang . |
| 13 | Er Brian has already confirmed that er he will support the Conservative resolution which in effect recognises that some of the changes in government regulation over the past er decade has not always turned out for the best er this County in particular order er other asked the Secretary of State to re to relieve some of the pressures that generates in that area and it 's for that reason er |
| 14 | The anomaly has not always worked entirely to the advantage of Scotland because , as a result of the requirements of a separate legal system , the British Parliament can not meet fully the need for modernising , reforming and improving that legal system . |
| 15 | He continued : ‘ In eight weeks of this dispute he [ Mr Clarke ] has not once sat down with the staff side of the ambulancemen . |
| 16 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 17 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 18 | Are you sure it has n't just run out of petrol ? ’ |
| 19 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 20 | Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , 48 , had not exactly dressed up for his meeting with John Major . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , ’ she murmured , and smiled to show that her heart had not just sunk down into her boots . |
| 22 | The people who had not yet moved out of hospital showed no clear trend in their level of participation in meaningful activity , strengthening the case for attributing changes in the group that moved to the community services rather than passage of time or general improvement in all services . |
| 23 | For he had not yet fallen on upon any of them . |
| 24 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 25 | Which were still dark ; the people had not yet gone upstairs to bed . |
| 26 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 27 | The Water Board had not yet caught up with them . |
| 28 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 29 | And the historical Jesus had not yet disappeared completely under the weight of later accretions . |
| 30 | And if Orrie had not already tramped all over it this morning , since his discovery , nosing out the signs of trespass , there just might be something to be found . |