Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new breed of shareholders has yet to show its skills of actually trading shares for long term appreciation and has tended to sell out at the most lucrative time . |
| 2 | Despite the much-vaunted claims of Conservative and Labour Members about their faith in competition , it is interesting that a truly radical step to introduce competition into the privatised utilities has yet to come . |
| 3 | But two years later the earth-moving equipment to build the dams had still to arrive , and the bush-clearing programme , optimistically assigned to the Masai moran ( men of the warrior age-group ) , had made no progress at all . |
| 4 | The zeks had more to concern them . |
| 5 | Selective schools have most to fear , especially those in Labour LEAs . |
| 6 | To check the statements ‘ comparison with the etching turn out to be optimistic ’ ( Schatborn ) and ‘ there is not a line that resembles Rembrandt 's other drawings of the period ’ ( Royalton-Kisch ) , readers have only to compare the treatment of the back in the drawing with the etching to see that the explanation offered by the experts that they are the product of two separate artists working independently in , ‘ a joint session of study from the model ’ is far fetched . |
| 7 | Work organizations have yet to develop such coping mechanisms . |
| 8 | But the major political parties have yet to get the real message , namely that the people know full well that someone , somehow , is going to have to pay for German unification . |
| 9 | But police say when drivers have nowhere to stop and rest , it 's a recipe for disaster . |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware that since CATO closed in my constituency , 230 training places remain to be filled and 35 trainers have yet to find jobs ? |
| 11 | While few throughout the country would still be prepared to wager against Rangers , it is interesting to note that the two main contenders have still to meet twice and that the points gap has been reduced to seven . |
| 12 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 13 | The two countries had yet to finalize a peace treaty formally ending the conflict which had effectively been halted by the 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 36568-69 ] . |
| 14 | Captains had therefore to use their own resources to pay their men and bargain as best they could with the Exchequer ; but there is little evidence that delays in payment became a political issue . |
| 15 | The balance were kept overnight at Prestwick as RAF ground handling crews had yet to arrive at Renfrew . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 17 | COMPULSORY seat-belts have yet to have any noticeable effect on road accident statistics in Britain , despite many exaggerated press reports . |
| 18 | Two other countries have yet to ratify the treaty : Germany ( see page 41 ) and Britain , where John Major 's government is likely to extract the treaty from Parliament by July . |
| 19 | The citizens of these countries have somehow to find forgiveness for each other and for themselves as part of the process of grieving and healing . |
| 20 | " An English minister " , wrote a pamphleteer in 1836 , ought never to forget that the map of the British empire is the map of the world , and that if the ministers of other countries have only to study surrounding nations , he has to know the wants and interests of every people under the sun , from the savage Caffres of the Cape , to the civilized inhabitants of France and Germany . |
| 21 | But negotiators have yet to complete a deal , said foreign ministry spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky . |
| 22 | ( Even today , Australian aborigines who have lived for a generation in settlements have still to acquire the habit of taking regular meals . ) |
| 23 | One problem the French planners have still to solve is the role of female graduates , some of whom have requested to take part in the new scheme . |
| 24 | Geomorphologists have yet to assess this possibility , although the relationship between migrating hot-spot swells and landscape development provides an intriguing subject for future research . |
| 25 | The Wigan directors have yet to respond to his request . |
| 26 | I am sadder yet that with all their sacrifices , the Iraqis have yet to rid themselves of their biggest problem , the scourge of Saddam . |
| 27 | This year 's expected cull of 5,000 elephants has yet to take place ; and one of the controversial wildlife management policy 's most vocal proponents has now lost his job as assistant director of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife . |
| 28 | According to this view , the working classes had more to unite them than divide them , and the separateness of states was a piece of mystification which helped to perpetuate capitalism . |
| 29 | As the 18th century turned , governments and officials had less to offer and newspaper publishers found advertising more lucrative as a form of revenue . |
| 30 | The edible crab , Cancer pagurus , is undoubtedly stronger and well able to cope with larger Nucella , but the adults live offshore so that intertidal dog-whelks have only to contend with juveniles . |