Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 2 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 3 | Of my writing you will form a more correct idea when you see my specimen of Penmanship , which I hope will afford you much pleasure , for my endeavours have not been deficient to render it deserving of your esteem . |
| 4 | Their opponents have not been able to make the connections as effectively , either through working out a coherent ideology or through practice and organization . |
| 5 | But overall , 75% of you have not had an affair — although only 65% are confident that their husband/partner has not been unfaithful to them . |
| 6 | It is a tax-free lump sum of £1,000 , paid as soon as a woman is widowed provided that : ( 1 ) her husband had paid sufficient NI contributions ; ( 2 ) she is under 60 ; or ( 3 ) if she is over 60 , her husband had not been entitled to retirement pension . |
| 7 | Heather Lloyd , defending , said they had committed the crimes more out of ignorance than malice and that their customers had not been unhappy . |
| 8 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 9 | A few of these associations have been providing homes in rural locations , and although individually their impact has not been great , collectively it is growing . |
| 10 | No wonder her father had not been well these last few weeks , he was worried about money . |
| 11 | Poles had fought both for and against Germany , and , partly because their state had not been involved in the war , Poles were ready — unlike the other participants in the war — to fight again , this time for something in which they had a stake . |
| 12 | She hoped Vincent would understand , would draw consolation from the knowledge that her life had not been empty , because her love would live on , wanning with its humanity a cold and , possibly , hostile universe . |
| 13 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 14 | However , the identity of the union remains closely tied to its agricultural as opposed to its ‘ allied ’ membership , and all the efforts of its organizers have not been able to arrest the gradual decline in membership that has accompanied the drift from the land . |
| 15 | The impression lingered that her mother had not come to find her , and that her mother had not been pleased to have her returned , for Rachaela was instantly slapped . |
| 16 | Here , too , all those policyholders whose cover has not been index-linked have had to frequently increase their sum insured in order to avoid becoming under-insured . |
| 17 | Rebus and his successors had not been aware of the true details of this massacre of prisoners . |
| 18 | ( b ) As the deceased had been suffering from clinical depression which impaired his judgment , his act had not been voluntary and the defence of volenti failed . |
| 19 | Polly appeared to be no more susceptible , but then his expectations had not been high . |
| 20 | Forster made use of this in a way his predecessors had not been able to . |
| 21 | There were no signs of violence , nothing to suggest that his death had not been peaceful . |
| 22 | It threatened him now , for what Maurice had not been able to endure was the sight of the emptying Reach . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost because our industry , our companies have not been able to compete in a fair contest . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry your baby 's not been well . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Your people have not been honest with you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Your life has not been happy ? ’ said Flavia . |