Example sentences of "have not [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Stern has not flinched from talking to buyers , sellers , advisers , consultants , accountants , friends , farmers and agents in his determination to buy at what he considers a reasonable price .
2 This obscurity has not detracted from the approach 's popularity , and many widely held notions about psychology have originated in the cinema , in magazines or novels , based on interpretations of psychoanalytic thought .
3 John remembers he has not eaten for twenty-four hours .
4 Dost stressed that ‘ so far the Government of the DRA has not received from the EEC or from any other organ any proposal in connection with the so-called ‘ conference on Afghanistan ’ ’ .
5 I arrive at length at the present appeal , one striking feature of which is that , whilst not formally abandoning them , counsel for the applicant has not pressed with any vigour either of the grounds upon which the Divisional Court decided in his favour , namely that the Director was entitled to ask questions after charge but only after administering a fresh caution , and that the fact of such a caution would be a reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer , within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 .
6 Though he , too , declared the distinction between written and unwritten constitutions old-fashioned , it is a pity that his summary has not served as a starting point for subsequent commentaries on the British ‘ constitution ’ .
7 ( d ) If the victim is not deceived , the accused has not obtained by deception .
8 This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period .
9 Indeed the number of police officers per thousand of population in the Thames Valley has not increased since nineeteen sixty eight , although demands on the police here have trebled .
10 Operating system revenues were up $1.8m to $61.7m , though revenue growth has not increased at the same rate as unit volumes shipped because of volume discount schedules .
11 A spokesman for the Housing Executive said : ‘ While building costs have increased the tender price has not increased at the same rate .
12 Despite good performances from both sectors , this share has not increased from last year which reflects some positive performances from other key sectors .
13 The level of giving has not increased in real terms at all significantly in the late 1980s despite attempts to increase its attractiveness through various tax reliefs .
14 In the light of the methodological weaknesses and the fact that euthanasia without explicit requests was not permitted ( but still yielded 1000 cases per year ) we are not convinced that LAWER has not increased in frequency .
15 The chimpanzee has not waited for evolution to shape its body into a specialised tool .
16 Its exact nature has not emerged to the satisfaction of all readers .
17 However , although the Cross Country route has not emerged as a high-speed line per se , it now features a number of useful long-distance trains mainly aimed at the leisure market .
18 One factor which has not emerged during the election is fatigue .
19 It has not emerged in isolation and is a strand of the overall trend in personal computing towards extremely small , powerful , easy-to-use devices .
20 Agnes is stretched out on her back , and images keep passing through her head : that strange , kindly man is visiting them again , the one who knows all about them and yet has not heard of the Eiffel Tower .
21 There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors .
22 The mainframe may be moribund , but if so , the South Korean government has not heard about it : it is looking for a foreign partner to build mainframes locally from 1997 , Reuter reports from Seoul .
23 The Advanced Computing Environment lives on , sort of , or if it is dead , NEC Electronics Inc has not heard about it and the Japanese company 's contribution to the festivities at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta is the launch of a new reduced instruction set computing chip set , the MCT-DP/MCT-ADR designed to facilitate development of high-performance systems based on the R-series architecture .
24 The Advanced Computing Environment lives on , sort of , or if it is dead , NEC Electronics Inc has not heard about it and the Japanese company 's contribution to the festivities at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta is the launch of a new reduced instruction set computing chip set , the MCT-DP/MCT-ADR designed to facilitate development of high-performance systems based on the R-series architecture .
25 The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road .
26 Monika , 27 , has not heard from the Bolton-born priest since the birth .
27 The matter has not fallen for consideration since , and the Hansard litigation remains the source for the existing modus vivendi as between the courts and Parliament .
28 Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears .
29 These complications often coexisted and with the exception of pelvic sepsis , their incidence has not fallen with increased experience with the operation .
30 It is understood Nelson has not communicated with any member of his family since his transfer to England in December .
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