Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] not be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 2 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 3 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope there has n't been any kind of trouble , ’ she said , watching the policemen disappear up the path . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope he 's not been brain-damaged by that blow . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 7 | He apologized when he was close enough , because he guessed he had n't been able to hear Lavinia calling to him above the noise of the Suffolk Punch . |
| 8 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 9 | You know you 've not been interested in sex for years . ’ |
| 10 | I know it has n't been bad ca n't complain can we ? |
| 11 | ‘ You know he has n't been unfaithful . ’ |
| 12 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 13 | The requirement of being implementable in the form of programs imposes a new and healthy constraint on theorising which has not been present previously . |
| 14 | She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes . |
| 15 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 16 | But Mr Davidson felt they had not been unfair in their treatment of him . |
| 17 | Declan Casey , 39 , was seized in Strabane , Co Tyrone , just minutes after RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley insisted he had not been free to kill while working for Special Branch . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't think it has n't been interesting . ’ |
| 19 | As I said in Silvio 's office , do n't think it has n't been interesting , because — ’ |
| 20 | We regret that this article on the KH864 means we have not been able to bring you Diane Bennett 's regular feature . |
| 21 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 22 | He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby . |
| 23 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 24 | Summing up at the Colchester inquest of Joan Miller on Wednesday , Essex Coroner Malcolm Weir said there had not been enough communication between staff from Colchester General and Turner Village Hospitals . |
| 25 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 26 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 27 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 28 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 29 | I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it . |
| 30 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |