Example sentences of "they have [not/n't] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 2 | Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money . |
| 3 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 4 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 5 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 6 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 7 | Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio . |
| 8 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 9 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 10 | But Mr Davidson felt they had not been unfair in their treatment of him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have not been successful in the past , and they will not be successful in the future . |
| 13 | Individuals may not declare all their income , particularly if they have not been truthful to the Inland Revenue or the DSS . |
| 14 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |