Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry I have n't been able to get Sergeant Henley for you . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't been able to make a proper examination . ’ |
| 4 | The only lodgings James had been able to afford were so squalid he had scarcely been able to concentrate on his studies for the cold each winter , and the thought of a house and a wife to warm his bed had been added incentive to pursue marriage plans with Maud Rollerson . |
| 5 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 7 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 8 | I 'm pretty certain he has n't been married . ’ |