Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 2 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 3 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 4 | For years it has not been clear exactly what the Tate is . |
| 5 | Many affidavits were filed in these proceedings , but for our purposes it has not been necessary to refer to them in any detail , because the facts are carefully summarised in the judgment of Mann L.J . |
| 6 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 7 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 8 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 9 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 10 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |
| 11 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 12 | White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness . |
| 13 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 14 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 15 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 16 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 17 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 18 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |