Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have not been " in BNC.

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1 As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees .
2 But of course I 've not been in the market you , you know .
3 I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships .
4 ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets .
5 ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see .
6 The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’
7 In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority .
8 still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious
9 As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family .
10 UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games .
11 In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts .
12 And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern .
13 It is important to remember that it is not the spelling of individual words that you are trying to teach , but the basic spelling patterns , so that pupils can spell correctly words they have n't been taught but want to write .
14 In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind .
15 Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it .
16 No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle .
17 It was a wonder they had n't been buried under it , and their injuries correspondingly worse .
18 I mean we 've got to see it 's a wonder they have n't been on to us cos they 've stopped the er
19 In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down .
20 The new profit and loss centre is aimed at driving Sun into areas it has n't been before like the embedded arena and seeking customers who would create a swot of derivative products .
21 The new profit and loss centre is aimed at driving Sun into areas it has n't been before , such as the embedded arena , and seeking customers that can create a string of derivative products .
22 No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it .
23 Just sort of er telling Frank he has n't been a very good friend and things .
24 Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra González resigned on Jan. 12 after eight years in office ; as of the end of January he had not been replaced .
25 Yet in spite of its obvious advantages it has not been received with any enthusiasm by the large corporations or indeed funding bodies of any description .
26 That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed .
27 Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week .
28 At the last moment she had not been brave enough .
29 The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form .
30 Anna thought of the funeral she had not been to , she had often thought about it , the strange people and strange cats who attended it .
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