Example sentences of "people have [not/n't] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a MORI poll , the majority of people have not grasped the realities of air pollution nor how they can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases . |
| 2 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 3 | Chief Buthelezi 's biggest enemy , Harry Gwala , leader of the ANC in Natal and KwaZulu , reviled the pact , saying : ‘ The people have not struggled and suffered for years to share power with their oppressors . ’ |
| 4 | The Labour party cloaks under expressions such as ’ attack on civil rights ’ the fact that such people have not registered for the tax and have been indulging in tax avoidance , a practice for which the Labour party still shows some sympathy . |
| 5 | With banks and building society savings , a large number of people have not registered to receive their interest gross . |
| 6 | Now how many people have not seen a list of the |
| 7 | Buddhists , indeed , have insisted that there is nothing supernatural about such enlightenment : the visions , ecstasies and other alternative states of consciousness experienced by an adept are not a meeting with an alien , divine reality but are natural to the human condition , even though most people have not developed this spiritual potential within themselves . |
| 8 | He says it 's useful information but it does raise the question of how many other people have not come forward . |
| 9 | Yeah , well that 's terrific , but when people have not got anything , they 've got no money , they 've got not family , they 've chosen to cut theirselves off , where do they creep in ? |
| 10 | Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , such people have not had their daily rhythms studied in detail and so we do not know the time-cues that are important to them . |
| 12 | If people have not had the chance to say the things they wanted to say then the sense of unfinished business can be overwhelming . |
| 13 | They would claim that elections ( hitherto ) in the Soviet Union , or in , say , El Salvador or the Philippines under President Marcos , have not been free : the people have not had a genuine choice open to them . |
| 14 | All of these stereotypes ( of which the above are a small sample ) come about because disabled people have not had an input , let alone a controlling interest , in culture and representation done in our name . |
| 15 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 16 | The third reason why local people have not benefited is that Dockland development draws in workers from a very wide area across London and the South-East . |
| 17 | ‘ According to our information , people have not booked in the UK either . |
| 18 | Antall declared that " after decades of dictatorship the political reflexes of the Hungarian people have not changed " , since the centrist alliance of the HDF , the Christian Democratic People 's Party and the Independent Smallholders ' Party had together " achieved the same result as the Smallholders in 1945 " ( which had then won 57 per cent of the vote ) . |
| 19 | Two people have not spoken to each other for months and during that time the sun has gone down day after day upon their anger with each other . |
| 20 | People have n't turned overnight into saints . |
| 21 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 22 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 23 | Maybe it 's a pity that people have n't lost the head a bit ; that they have n't gone berserk and showed up the authorities for what they are — I do n't know , unfeeling , inhuman , unconcerned . |
| 24 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 25 | Sort of consortium What — somebody tell me in the group what sort of press release you had , what did it describe , so that we , the other people have n't seen it , have they ? |
| 26 | Because er in the past people have n't filled in the value of the erm of the work element in in the databases . |
| 27 | And I think really what 's needed is actually going out , I mean , it could be a useful new thing that , a new departure that other people have n't done . |
| 28 | It is rare for such declarations to be made — but that is usually because people have n't given any thought as to how best to behave and therefore have nothing to declare . |
| 29 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 30 | The grass is always greener when 700 people have n't tramped across your lawn , reflects Alan Titchmarsh . |