Example sentences of "[noun pl] have not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where God has spoken and spoken clearly , rationality comes into its own ; where God has not spoken , or for his own reasons has not spoken clearly , there is the area of mystery . |
| 2 | Choice between these competing theories of relationship among the Recent forms has not received consensus ( compare refs 23 , 24 to refs 21 , 22 , 25 ) . |
| 3 | They 're furious that a promised reduction in hours has n't happened , although health chiefs say they 're doing all they can . |
| 4 | The new phenomenon of a deficit on manufactured trade has not , however , created any crisis in the UK 's international position : even the decline in net exports of manufactures has not fulfilled the prediction implicit in the adage ‘ export or die ’ . |
| 5 | The abolition of those taxes has not done the average family any good , has it , or those at Lloyd 's ? |
| 6 | Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears . |
| 7 | The firmness of the houses has not changed ; a few may have become offices , or been sub-divided into what must surely be splendid apartments , but the depth of the society persists . |
| 8 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 9 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 10 | Sadly , teaching of languages in schools has not kept pace with the relevant technological advances , but we find now that it is almost never necessary to recruit an individual specifically for linguistic skill . |
| 11 | Although in the case of the UK there have been substantial additions to the official reserves in recent years ( a consequence of foreign exchange market intervention , even though the UK has , technically , a floating or market-determined exchange rate ) this growth in the reserves has not matched the increase in capital flows . |
| 12 | In his address to them the Holy Father stressed that the era of Missionaries has not ended . |
| 13 | The Office for Fine Arts has not made definite plans about the procedure to be followed but it is thought that those institutions which already have some of the works of art on loan will be allowed to keep them , while the museums will be able to choose from what is left . |
| 14 | However , the disappearance of organizational links between the press and parties has not affected the manner in which those linkages continue to be perceived . |
| 15 | Absorbed in the painting , their ears had n't caught his almost silent approach through the open door . |
| 16 | A revision of electoral lists had not taken place since 1985 , contrary to the Constitution which stipulated such a revision every three years . |
| 17 | The great issue of predestination had divided the movement for ‘ vital religion ’ from the outset : Whitefield had been a Calvinist , but the Wesley brothers had not followed him . |
| 18 | His brothers had not replied , and his parents wrote that they hoped he was not hurrying into marriage , but that he was old enough to decide for himself . |
| 19 | The compounds had not led , as he had then hoped , to new dyestuffs , and it appeared that no one had yet investigated their biological properties . |
| 20 | A check with the skies proved that the informant 's eyes had not deceived him . |
| 21 | His eyes had n't left her face ; they were thoughtful , searching . |
| 22 | Libyans had not resolved such contrasting usages . |
| 23 | The Greens/Alliance 90 won representation in every Land except Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania where the two parties had not presented a joint list . |
| 24 | That being so , and the items being so basic , their lordships held that the parties had not intended to make a contract but had simply agreed to agree . |
| 25 | Following Resolution 43/83 on the Antarctic at the previous session [ see p. 36779 ] , part B of Resolution 44/124 expressed its regret that the Antarctic Treaty consultative parties had not invited the UN Secretary-General to meetings held in Paris in May and October 1989 [ see pp. 36989-90 ] , in spite of numerous resolutions to that effect . |
| 26 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 27 | If the parties had not agreed on nominating such authority , or if the nominated authority declines to appoint an arbitrator or is unable to nominate one within sixty days of its receipt of either party 's request to that effect , both parties may ask the Secretary-General of the Permanent Arbitration Court to nominate an appointing authority . |
| 28 | It was further provided that if the parties had not agreed the rent six months before the review date , and the landlord had not made the application to the President , then any notice given by the landlord to trigger the review should be void and of no effect . |
| 29 | In February 1991 the Bundestag agreed to grant modified " group status " to the PDS and the Alliance " 90/Greens ( elected in eastern German Länder ) , even though these parties had not won sufficient seats in the December election to qualify for status as a " parliamentary group " . |
| 30 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |