Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 2 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 3 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 5 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 11 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 12 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 13 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 14 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 15 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 16 | The mundane world view would suggest that you 've simply been foolish or unlucky , and that 's all there is to it . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ And my feelings are telling me that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do . |
| 21 | ‘ I know now that we 've all been wrong about what I want to do with my — ’ |
| 22 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |
| 23 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 26 | One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 29 | It was Charlton 's 11th away success — a League best — and their achievements are all the more commendable coming in the wake of last year 's relegation , the departure of manager Lennie Lawrence , the on-off move back to the Valley and the fact that they have not been able to compete in the transfer market . |
| 30 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |