Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] n't [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 4 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 6 | Many feminists have become uncomfortable with this idea , but we have n't been able to find any other argument that did n't immediately pose a threat to our basic position that women must control their own bodies . |
| 7 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 8 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 9 | ‘ I enjoy playing with Gala because they seek to spin the ball where possible but we really have n't played all that well this season , mainly because we have n't been able to win enough quality ball . |
| 10 | ‘ The argument in Italy that ‘ we 're not ready for competition ’ goes something like ‘ since we have n't been able to serve our customers as we should up until now , no one else should be allowed to ! ’ ’ he said . |
| 11 | and as we have n't been able to get round |