Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb base] not [be] " 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 ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets .
4 ‘ And I think he may have found my jewel box upstairs , but of course I have n't been up there to see .
5 The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’
6 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 .
7 For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance .
8 At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti .
9 I mean , there could I mean I think the House of Commons is now some way past in in my life in the sense I have n't been there since er June .
10 because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look
11 I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April !
12 ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do .
13 ‘ Now that 's one mystery I have n't been able to solve .
14 Actually it has , though whether by enough to require a bigger bag I have n't been able to make out . ’
15 I think I saw Edinburgh Castle I have n't been in so
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