Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years . |
| 2 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
| 3 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 4 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 5 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 6 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |
| 7 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 8 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 9 | and then go back over stuff that you 've done earlier that you have n't been able to understand where you 've felt , Ooh I do n't know what 's going on here . |
| 10 | Does n't it worry you that you have n't been able really to make an efficient crackdown here and your officers are still suffering attacks ? |
| 11 | ‘ So you have n't been unfaithful , is that what you 're saying ? |
| 12 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 14 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 15 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 16 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 17 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 18 | Now , although I have great respect for er , the representative of the Osteoporosis Society I se , I still think as a epidemiologist that there have n't been enough women on H R T for long enough |
| 19 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 20 | There are many documents that can be happily produced at 300dpi and either photocopied or short-run printed and no-one will ever be aware that they have n't been typeset . |
| 21 | ‘ Although it has n't been one of the happiest experiences of my life either , ’ she added in a low voice . |
| 22 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 23 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 24 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 25 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 26 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 27 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 28 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 29 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 30 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |