Example sentences of "[pron] have n't be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too many people are able to , and do say , ‘ I have n't been involved with TOP at all ’ . |
| 2 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ said Lucy , ‘ I have n't been fair to you . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 6 | I sto I have n't been sick for er about a week |
| 7 | I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’ |
| 8 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 9 | She said I 'm I 'm just ringing to tell you Joy that you did n't get you you have n't been successful with your application this time . |
| 10 | I think , because maybe you have n't been flexible at the outset , and all you 've ended up doing is scoring points off each other , |
| 11 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 12 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 13 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 14 | And they have n't been able to totally accept what 's wrong with Mum , you know , that some of her behavioural problems are n't her being vindictive . |