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

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1 His brother died of a tumour , and we went to the funeral , and since then he has not eaten well . ’
2 • To make him vomit , give your child water to drink if he has not eaten recently .
3 If the company does prove its case , it is still not clear whether it would escape the sanctions threatened by the US against European telecommunications products and services — mainly because the US has not firmed up on what action it will take .
4 While Crescendo has not firmed up its plans enough to announce what specific products are to follow , SynOptics says that in the third quarter of the year it will launch two FDDI unshielded twisted pair hub products : the Model 3905 FDDI UTP Host Module is claimed to be compatible with all existing SynOptics System 3000 modules , and will list for £3,630 .
5 Families had greater incomes to spend , and whilst the relative proportion of income spent on foodstuffs has not increased greatly , the absolute sums spent have risen as a result .
6 There are , however , good reasons to believe that the Earth 's radius has not increased significantly during the past 500 Ma or so .
7 My remarks about the Attorney-General were strong because he has not faced up to his responsibility to enforce the law .
8 According to the head of Berlin 's Radiation Measurement Office , Udo Morfeld , the pollution has not created as big a problem as it could have because the clay soil has slowed down the seepage of radioactive material into the groundwater .
9 While the latter 's name has been associated on many occasions with Dublin , to date it has not operated here .
10 But fertility has not fallen accordingly — its nadir was in 1977 .
11 Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover .
12 There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses .
13 Vietnam has not ruled out the possibility of its army returning to Cambodia if requested by Phnom Penh .
14 He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election .
15 He wants to see cultural activities in at least part of Somerset House — although he has not ruled out some commercial use ( for example , a hotel ) in the rest .
16 They are still at large and Scotland Yard has not ruled out their possible involvement in the latest attacks , but they are believed to be firearms specialists rather than bomb makers .
17 And she has not ruled out the prospect of having another baby , according to royal sources .
18 TERRY BUTCHER has not ruled out the possibility of staying in football with Sunderland .
19 Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale .
20 Manager Ted Pearce has not ruled out a merger with the reformed Shots who have been drawing crowds of more than 2,000 to the Recreation Ground after their blistering start in the Diadora League Division Three .
21 But Cooke has not ruled out a return for the wing legend , who scored a record 35 tries for England .
22 Sun Microsystems Inc has confirmed formation of the wholly-owned personal communicator unit FirstPerson Inc ( CI No 2,118 ) and says that its key focus will be on developing software that enables different types of digital devices to swap data and work together — it has in mind televisions , radios , satellites and computers — and to license the software and technology to other companies for use in their electronics products , putting it in direct competition with General Magic Inc , while mirroring some of the concepts of the Echelon Corp Local Operating Network ; boss of the new company Wayne Rosen said that FirstPerson has not ruled out collaborating with General Magic .
23 It might even be Mr Ozal himself ( he has not ruled out the idea of standing ) , but one of his associates seems a likelier choice .
24 The Government has not ruled out putting warning labels on products such as aerosols and lighter fuel .
25 Mr McKillen , who has offered a £100 reward to help trace the donkey , has not ruled out the possibility that a jealous rival owner may have taken Toby but fears he could already be dead .
26 Though no-one has been injured , the incidents are potentially damaging to the SNP which has not ruled out civil disobedience as part of its campaign against water privatisation .
27 It is no accident that people in AI rarely draw flow-charts , and it is a cliché of programming in LISP that if one finds oneself drawing a flow-chart , one has not understood how LISP works .
28 Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far .
29 Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries .
30 EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada .
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