Example sentences of "that [pron] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
2 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
3 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
4 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
9 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
10 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
11 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
12 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
13 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
14 | Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
18 | 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 . |
19 | We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we have n't been able to wear for ages . |
20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
21 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
22 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
23 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
24 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
25 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
26 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
27 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
28 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
29 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
30 | 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 . |