Example sentences of "they [verb] not [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 2 | They had not only been active in discussion among themselves , but had become a source of commentary about the state of the nation . |
| 3 | Erm I I 've done a lot of listening this evening er and I 'm sure you have too from from the way in which the the rest of the board have been responding er with there eyes and ears even if they have n't always been open . |
| 4 | They have n't always been National Anthems , it 's a relatively new thing , erm , I 've mentioned Elizabethan times , about four hundred years ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |