Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Many uses of the software are as yet , undiscovered , because although a software package is designed for one purpose , it can be adapted to meet a particular need within a school which the software designers had not thought about . |
| 7 | Able to dissemble , because those lads had not expected to be killed . |
| 8 | Even now his words had n't sunk in completely . |
| 9 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 10 | politically , too , despite tensions over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 , the furore over the U2 incident when an American reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union , and the shock of the Soviet lead in space exploration and technology , tensions between the two superpowers had not returned to the glacial levels of a decade earlier . |
| 11 | His lips had n't tasted of alcohol at all . |
| 12 | I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside |
| 13 | The argument was on the semantics of how post-sixteen education is presently offered in Banbury , and whereas , of course , they had every right to use the opting out legislation as a governing body , it must be said that the possibility of success under those terms erm is somewhat untried , because of course legislation was specifically geared at Local Education Authorities that do not look after their schools , and thus schools are able to opt out of a badly run , inefficient Education Authority , and we 've seen that happen in many of the urban areas in the country , and indeed some schools have not opted for that . |
| 14 | One reason for this limited ability of central banks to intervene in foreign exchange markets is that , generally , official reserves of gold and foreign currencies have not increased in line with the size of the flows which can disturb exchange rates . |
| 15 | At the end of the letter is someone to contact if your codings have n't arrived by implementation date . |
| 16 | Personal computer manufacturers have not waited for new standards but have begun to build CD-ROM drives into their products . |
| 17 | However , the Dragons have not scored in nearly 12 hours of football without him , taking just one point from the last eight games to sink back into the bottom three . |
| 18 | You know what I 'm talking about , even if you and Manners have n't rolled in the hay . |
| 19 | He has become a famous dramatist , and the two brothers have n't spoken for a decade , as Alfred feels Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays . |
| 20 | The defendants had not relied on the clause but had reached a negotiated settlement in similar prior cases . |
| 21 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 22 | A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers . |
| 23 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 24 | But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions . |
| 25 | He was dressed in traditional subfusc brown with a ragged sweater and a Viyella check shirt that his father must have handed down to him , and addressed Jack as if the status of professional golfers had not changed since the thirties . |
| 26 | If enthusiasts had not travelled from the Private Greens , the Provincial Bowling Association and especially , the Northern Ireland Bowling Association there would have been a sepulchral atmosphere about the whole thing . |
| 27 | Thus Verity , the generation construction engineer , replied to an enquiry in September 1949 as to why the engineers had not reacted to a draft contracts procedure sent to them six months ago : |
| 28 | The Royal Marines had not landed at Dakar because , without adequate craft for an overwhelming initial assault , any piecemeal landing could have led to prolonged fighting with potential allies . |
| 29 | The titles of my lectures had not changed since the early sixties : Bernini , Borromini , Carlo Fontana , Sculpture I and Sculpture II . |
| 30 | Training has been ‘ in-service ’ rather than before entry , and the highest posts have not gone to specialists but to broadly educated men and women who have specialized only in administration . |