Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [not/n't] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 2 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 3 | It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed . |
| 4 | After an announcement of a firm intention to make an offer has been made the offeror must , except with the consent of the Panel , proceed with the posting of the offer document ( which must occur within 28 days ) unless the posting is subject to a specific pre-condition which has not been satisfied ( Rules 2.7 and 30.1 ) . |
| 5 | The postcode to Enumeration District directory and the digitised boundary data enable it to be mapped and compared with data compiled on a different geographical basis , an aid which has not been available for censuses prior to 1981 . |
| 6 | still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious |
| 7 | All the quality standards require arrangements for files to be reviewed by a lawyer who has not been involved in the day-to-day conduct of the case . |
| 8 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 9 | He brings to football a dimension which has n't been present since the days of the great wingers . |
| 10 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 11 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 12 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 13 | At the last moment she had not been brave enough . |
| 14 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 15 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 16 | The matter was referred to Jockey Club headquarters in London to enable the stewards to see a video recording of the Ayr race which had not been available at Carlisle . |
| 17 | Since that day she had not been able to sleep , or to think straight . |
| 18 | At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti . |
| 19 | The tribunal will consist of the chief officer of police ( chairman ) and two members of the Police Complaints Authority who have not been concerned with the case . |
| 20 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 21 | The other time , he remembered , it was his father who had n't been able to eat . |
| 22 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 23 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 24 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 25 | Because the Left has not been sensitive to the established debates on the British constitution it has not been attentive to the potentialities for change which have flowed from the absence of legal and constitutional limits on Parliament . |
| 26 | The general member auditors , er , I 'm told that they , they look after the money they 've not been able to find themselves seats I understand this morning , so hopefully everything 's in order but somewhere around Eric George and Arthur are they around ? |
| 27 | Thanks to Karen 's attack I had n't been able to pee , and when my organ switched from reproductive to urinary mode I realized that my bladder was bursting . |
| 28 | Latvia , in common with other former republics of the now defunct Soviet Union , is looking to the West not only for help but ideas as it tries to rebuild its shattered economy and create a better way of life in a society which has not been used to making decisions for itself . |
| 29 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 30 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |