Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 2 | Of my writing you will form a more correct idea when you see my specimen of Penmanship , which I hope will afford you much pleasure , for my endeavours have not been deficient to render it deserving of your esteem . |
| 3 | Their opponents have not been able to make the connections as effectively , either through working out a coherent ideology or through practice and organization . |
| 4 | Heather Lloyd , defending , said they had committed the crimes more out of ignorance than malice and that their customers had not been unhappy . |
| 5 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 6 | However , the identity of the union remains closely tied to its agricultural as opposed to its ‘ allied ’ membership , and all the efforts of its organizers have not been able to arrest the gradual decline in membership that has accompanied the drift from the land . |
| 7 | Rebus and his successors had not been aware of the true details of this massacre of prisoners . |
| 8 | Polly appeared to be no more susceptible , but then his expectations had not been high . |
| 9 | Forster made use of this in a way his predecessors had not been able to . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’ |