Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and I have not been rebellious ; |
| 32 | I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing . |
| 33 | I have not been happy with my lateral movement and Pepe has helped me to rediscover the sweet science . ’ |
| 34 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 35 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 36 | Be that as it may , since that first witticism concerning the gypsies , I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough . |
| 37 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | I have not been able to purchase any more — it seems to be short supply . |
| 40 | ‘ I have not been able to build a normal relationship with any man since the attack . |
| 41 | I have not been able to sleep or eat . |
| 42 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 43 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 44 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 45 | With × 20 it is easy , though I have not been able to obtain any definite resolution into stars without using a telescope . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |
| 48 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 49 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |
| 50 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 51 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |
| 52 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 53 | There were libraries in the lighthouses at Portnahaven , Rhuvaal and probably McArthur 's Head but I have not been able to find out what happened to them . |
| 54 | So far I have not been able to come up with any musical symbol that has not been catered for , whether arranging for full orchestra , brass-band or choir — with the single exception of guitar chord symbols . |
| 55 | I will certainly look with compassion in days to come on the three hon. Members whom I have not been able to call on the statement , but we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 56 | Knowing that these and similar things are being said , in order to commemorate past deeds , so that they may come to the notice of future generations , I have not been able to hide the struggles of the wicked or the lives of those who have lived righteously , even in much uncultivated speech . |
| 57 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | I have not been able to do more than suggest the rough outline of this approach . |
| 60 | 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 . |