Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 2 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 3 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 4 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 5 | He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … . |
| 6 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 7 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 8 | erm , well it just , it just , you know , with her , I mean , she ca n't sit still , I mean to have , I mean I , the last four Saturdays , admittedly I have n't been well , but I 've just been totally indoors sewing . |
| 9 | somehow I have n't been able to work |
| 10 | Nevertheless he has not been slow to seize on the results of such paperwork and the publication of tables , which have shown Edinburgh 's research ranks in the top four British universities . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so . |
| 13 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 14 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 17 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 18 | These people are often thoughtful and clever , but so far they have not been able to bring about worthwhile changes . |
| 19 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 20 | Indeed , so far he had not been able to discover any previous relationship at all between Zoser and the Zikr . |
| 21 | So far he has n't been wrong ! |
| 22 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 23 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 24 | I ca n't I have n't been bloody , yeah you have now , I 've still got ta get to there yet before I can bloody buy anything |
| 25 | It must be almost dawn , she thought absently ; an hour ago she had not been able to see a thing . |
| 26 | ‘ But surely you have not been unfaithful to him ? ’ |
| 27 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 28 | Well there has n't been any success under John McGregor . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly he had not been happy as a Wesleyan . |
| 30 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |