Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not yet been able to fathom why . |
| 2 | Despite many years of searching , I have not yet been able to track down any other source of reference on the design and construction of valve pre and power amplifiers . |
| 3 | This is crazy , because I have not yet been able to decide what Claudia was like . |
| 4 | I have not even been able to describe all the various tackle items now available for carp fishing . |
| 5 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the inflow of complaints continues to grow and I am disturbed that we have not yet been able to make much of an inroad into the backlog of work . |
| 7 | Even though we have not yet been able to predict any of these quantities from superstring theory , many people believe that we will be able to do so eventually . |
| 8 | ‘ We have not yet been able to review the data ’ , he says . |
| 9 | Police said they had not yet been able to identify the man but he is not believed to be local . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |