Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in spite of this physical transformation , the statistics of unemployment and homelessness , which of course are not cited by the LDDC , show that LDDC-led ‘ regeneration ’ has not trickled down very far into the working class communities of East London . |
| 2 | In Northern Regional Health Authority v Derek Crouch Construction Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 QB 644 , the Court of Appeal held that the courts do not have jurisdiction over certain types of building disputes because of the wording of the arbitration clause in the construction industry 's standard form contracts , and that the court should not alter agreed machinery for resolving disputes where that machinery has not broken down . |
| 3 | Stressing the need ‘ to behave in a manner which is neither racist nor sexist , ’ ‘ to uphold individual rights , ’ and ‘ to cooperate and consult with the community and other agencies in pursuing our purpose ’ has not gone down well with conservative officers . |
| 4 | This has not gone down too well with the Torinese , who want a more prestigious side to inaugurate their new stadium . |
| 5 | Avnet Inc 's proposed acquisition of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp has not gone down to well with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which said it may cut the distributors $100m of A-plus-rated subordinated debt . |
| 6 | One could , of course , still say that the total entropy , including the entropy inside the black hole , has not gone down — but since there is no way to look inside the black hole , we can not see how much entropy the matter inside it has . |
| 7 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 8 | According to the Cambridge-based World Conservation Monitoring Centre , almost all of this oil has already been washed ashore or is in the shallows along 200km of Saudi coast ; it has not moved down to the southern Gulf , where most of the turtles and dugongs live . |
| 9 | One consequence of time spent on foreign policy is that there are still subjects on which the president himself has not laid down detailed marching orders to his staff . |
| 10 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 11 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 12 | The ultimate expression of player power has n't gone down too well back in New Zealand , where the NZRFU chief executive George Verry said : ‘ I ca n't recall a precedent for such comments , but I 'm sure the rules have provisions for dealing with players who bring the game into disrepute ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Has n't slipped down either . ’ |
| 14 | I took her in after her mother died , but she has n't settled down - " |
| 15 | If James has n't come down by the time you get back , I promise to go and get you a drink , my darling , dearest , demanding wife . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet . |
| 17 | He 's putting the flues on and he has n't come down to check it so if he 's down here I 'm gon na bloody tell him . |
| 18 | The benefits of sustained economic growth in the developed countries had not filtered down to the developing nations during the 1980s . |
| 19 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 20 | And yet this too had its agreeable counterpart ; their boats , however much in need of repair , had not gone down . |
| 21 | Despite indiscretions induced by excess alcohol , relations between Stewart and Glenure had not broken down irretrievably . |
| 22 | However , all sides insisted that the initiative had not broken down . |
| 23 | He had not quietened down at all as he had grown older — far from it — and could not now be still for a single moment . |
| 24 | By mid-morning Leon Kennedy had not arrived down so Rosen left a letter for him on the hall table and returned to London . |
| 25 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 26 | We then noticed Allingham had not come down although he was generally an early riser . |
| 27 | If the steel plant had not closed down , most of the early-retired would have probably stayed in their jobs until the pension age . |
| 28 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 29 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 30 | The bigger surprise still is in sixth place good old Hartlepool United who 've not gone down anywhere for 23 seasons . |