Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 2 | I have been constantly told what a fine man he was and I regret not being able to experience and appreciate his qualities first-hand as I have grown from a child to an adult . |
| 3 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 4 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 5 | and I have not been rebellious … |
| 6 | and I have not been rebellious ; |
| 7 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 8 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 9 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 10 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 11 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 12 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 13 | You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything . |
| 14 | you 've been overtired and you have n't been able to get to sleep very well . |
| 15 | Perhaps Piers had been no more than a struggling architect when they had first met , and she had not been content to lead a life of poverty . |
| 16 | ‘ Servants , be obedient to them that are your masters ’ she read in Ephesians 6 — and she had not been obedient . |
| 17 | And she had not been blind either . |
| 18 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 19 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 20 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 21 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 22 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 23 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 24 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 25 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 27 | He says if it was Satanic there would be signs of a ritual and there have n't been any . |
| 28 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |
| 29 | because it 's come out a lot in this discussion that is there 's a big gap between the biological , biological and medical knowledge that 's accrued in the last ten or fifteen years , and the actual social consequences of these developments and there has n't been enough discussion and consideration of what will happen . |
| 30 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |