Example sentences of "not been [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rifts persistently occur within the human race , and one important cause could well be found in the tendency of human beings to group themselves together and rally around a particular banner for no other reason than to be able to identify another group as an ‘ enemy ’ upon whom can be laid the blame for hardship and misery suffered ; suffering which it has not been possible to attribute to any obvious cause . |
| 2 | Many affidavits were filed in these proceedings , but for our purposes it has not been necessary to refer to them in any detail , because the facts are carefully summarised in the judgment of Mann L.J . |
| 3 | I should add that in any event the Bank of England are in my judgment entitled to the presumption of regularity both as to reasonableness and as to the scope of their functions , and Mr. Philipson has not been able to point to any evidence of fact which can not be reconciled with them having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 4 | Mr McGregor still suffers from a reduced function in his arms and has not been able to return to work . |
| 5 | Gender , Class and Education , a collection edited by Stephen Walker and Len Barton ( 1983 ) , contains a number of useful articles on the interaction between class and gender in education and , in particular , has an interesting discussion by Madeleine Arnot of the feminist issues surrounding co-education and single sex schooling — an issue which , for reasons of space , I have not been able to refer to in this section . |
| 6 | He had still not been able to talk to Majorie about the adoption . |
| 7 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 8 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 9 | When you live alone , where you keep your money and how you can reach it , is exceptionally important , because you do not have a live-in partner to borrow from if you have not been able to go to the bank . |
| 10 | However , this is not to say that many forms of life have not been able to adapt to life on slopes up to the 10,000-ft ( 3,050 m ) level , and in some cases higher . |
| 11 | She had not been able to come to terms with her ‘ public position ’ . |
| 12 | If you have not been able to come to Q.T. Days for a while , please try to come during the new session . |
| 13 | The pathologist and the Detective Sergeant had not been over-eager to react to his suggestion to go straight to the highest authority . |
| 14 | It is true that geomorphologists have tended to neglect large-scale continental problems but this arises because they have not been prepared to contribute to tectonics and geophysics , which must surely be a prerequisite for an effective and accepted research contribution at the world level . |
| 15 | It has not been slow to go to the press . |