Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] not [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 2 | Other clients who 've not been sure about coming , actually find they quite like it and it 's not that bad and yes , they 'd like to stay ! |
| 3 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 4 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 6 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 7 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 8 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 9 | I have many points to answer , rather than respond to hon. Members who have not been present for the full debate . |
| 10 | Furthermore , there would be no question of the judge , before giving his advice , seeing documents which have not been available to the prisoner . |
| 11 | The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards . |
| 12 | A similar thing has happened to Ms , especially in Britain and Australia : instead of replacing Miss and Mrs it has been added to the system to make a further distinction , referring in many people 's usage to older unmarried women , divorcees and ‘ strident feminists ’ — in other words , to ‘ abnormal ’ and ‘ unfeminine ’ women who have not been able to get — or keep — a man . |
| 13 | Individual librarians themselves have not been slow to recommend model programmes and the literature of user education abounds with such statements and desiderata . |