Example sentences of "have [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West German electorate lacks confidence in Chancellor Kohl and his team , but has yet to be convinced that the SPD , with whatever future coalition partner it chooses , will do much better . |
| 2 | Stirling has yet to be convinced even by Samuel 's figure . |
| 3 | Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker . |
| 4 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 5 | At the start , when you still have enough energy to argue if you can see Schiehallion or not , and your first piece of chocolate has yet to be unwrapped , the distant peak beckoning on the far side of the ridge is sensational . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the second strand to the Report that a Lending and Security Act be implemented to regulate commercial transactions has yet to be successful . |
| 7 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 8 | Now , clearly , it had all along been sincere . |
| 9 | He had only to be patient . |
| 10 | A man might be more virtuous if more selfish , after all , as more than one eighteenth-century moralist proposed , and more generous if he had more to be generous with . |
| 11 | The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 . |
| 12 | At Christmas , Easter and Pentecost private chapels were not to be used for services ; their priests had to attend the bishop in his cathedral city , where the leading citizens had also to be present . |
| 13 | We tend to forget the immense labour involved in forging the literally thousands of wire rings , which had then to be beaten flat , holes drilled into each end , and rivets added . |
| 14 | She had yet to be impressed by the Eastern clergy , who not only countenanced belief in the miraculous powers of human teeth , but actually traded in bogus religious relics . |
| 15 | I had yet to be disillusioned . |
| 16 | I 've yet to be convinced of this , I 'm still waiting to find out . |
| 17 | Helen tells me you want to do farm work as well , and although I 'm told women vets are just as good as men I 've yet to be convinced . |
| 18 | He pointed to the necessity of a reciprocal relationship , one that had ultimately to be beneficial to all participants , and not merely based upon value money exchanges but one that entailed an exchange of real use-values . |
| 19 | Others have still to be convinced but , from Norster 's standpoint , it is simple — and anyone with any sense would have to agree that his logic is unimpeachable . |
| 20 | Area MPs have still to be convinced that it is the sporting fishery which butters their electoral bread . |
| 21 | But I have yet to be convinced ( as some publicity suggests ) that the centre of the dance universe is now located in France . |
| 22 | But I have yet to be convinced of the need that these should be taken at two particular times in a student 's school career . |
| 23 | Ludes wines are welcomed for their use in blending of cuvées , they have the body and vinosity of a true Montagne wine , but I have yet to be convinced that a single growth Ludes can be a complete wine on its own . |
| 24 | He plans to market CIRVs in packs of six for £50,000 , and says that while potential users such as the SAS and RAF aircrew have shown great interest in the concept , Whitehall purse keepers have yet to be convinced . |
| 25 | Because the majority of college lecturers have yet to be convinced that there are better ways of conveying information — e.g. by the use of video or computer — or are too lazy to investigate or to try them . |
| 26 | ‘ So you say , but I have yet to be convinced . |
| 27 | We have however to be careful about the interpretation . |