Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not yet been able to fathom why . |
| 2 | Despite many years of searching , I have not yet been able to track down any other source of reference on the design and construction of valve pre and power amplifiers . |
| 3 | This is crazy , because I have not yet been able to decide what Claudia was like . |
| 4 | I have not even been able to describe all the various tackle items now available for carp fishing . |
| 5 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 6 | Frustration is important in mathematics , for you can not really experience release , that beautiful sense of things falling into place , if you have not previously been confused , feeling that things were out of place . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the inflow of complaints continues to grow and I am disturbed that we have not yet been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . |
| 8 | Even though we have not yet been able to predict any of these quantities from superstring theory , many people believe that we will be able to do so eventually . |
| 9 | ‘ We have not yet been able to review the data ’ , he says . |
| 10 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 11 | They had not only been active in discussion among themselves , but had become a source of commentary about the state of the nation . |
| 12 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 13 | They have not always been sufficiently quick to follow up when there has been evidence that a site has been tampered with , and certainly they have not always been keen to organise rescue excavations to investigate these sites . |
| 14 | In spite of the considerable popularity of Tough 's framework , she has not subjected the specific strategies to a rigorous examination of reliability and , when other researchers have attempted to replicate her work , they have not always been able to demonstrate good agreement between different observers ( Wells 1979 ) . |
| 15 | A part-time probation officer may do so in his own time provided that he has not previously been concerned with the child and his family in a professional capacity . |
| 16 | Evaluation of its performance is hazardous because it has not generally been subject to commercial practices and norms [ Pryke , 1981 ] . |
| 17 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 18 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |
| 19 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 20 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 21 | Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow . |
| 22 | but it has not always been easy . |
| 23 | It has not always been obvious that the natural way to classify animals was hierarchical . |
| 24 | Secondly , a continuing and , in some ways , irresolvable problem is how to balance the twin aims of conservation and recreation since , despite the Sandford recommendations , it has not always been clear where the emphasis should be ( Cripps 1980 ) . |
| 25 | It had not always been possible for him to observe the phenomenon on his own . |
| 26 | Replying to these criticisms ( which have raised the possibility of an elaborate forgery ) in the newspaper El Pais , the Spanish pre-historian Antonio Beltran noted that although he had not previously been aware of depictions of penguins , rare animals such as snow hares and seals were found in cave paintings . |
| 27 | He wished to be able to show by affidavit evidence that he had not occupied the house qua pauper but had paid rates and carried out repairs , and that he had not therefore been chargeable on the parish during the period of his occupation ; the magistrate could not give himself jurisdiction by his own affirmation of it . |
| 28 | It 's not always been easy . |
| 29 | I 've tried , but it 's not always been easy . |
| 30 | ‘ But with injuries that have cut the heart from the side , Souness has had to buy — and he 's not always been successful . |