Example sentences of "but [pron] have n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 4 | But I have n't been able |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 7 | Many feminists have become uncomfortable with this idea , but we have n't been able to find any other argument that did n't immediately pose a threat to our basic position that women must control their own bodies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 10 | ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’ |
| 11 | We 'll take any signals from the UK Government but there have n't been any so far |