Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 4 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 5 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 6 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 7 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 8 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 9 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 10 | Yeah unfortunately I 've not been able to have it done yet . |
| 11 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 12 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 13 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , since that first witticism concerning the gypsies , I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough . |
| 16 | For Hardy , who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid , ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is , or was , to me ’ , it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have not been able to purchase any more — it seems to be short supply . |
| 19 | ‘ I have not been able to build a normal relationship with any man since the attack . |
| 20 | I have not been able to sleep or eat . |
| 21 | In fact , during my first few months , I have not been able to identify any major differences between the procedures that the Institute has set up in response to the Companies Act and those that I would expect from an ‘ external ’ regulator . |
| 22 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 23 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 24 | With × 20 it is easy , though I have not been able to obtain any definite resolution into stars without using a telescope . |
| 25 | Gender , Class and Education , a collection edited by Stephen Walker and Len Barton ( 1983 ) , contains a number of useful articles on the interaction between class and gender in education and , in particular , has an interesting discussion by Madeleine Arnot of the feminist issues surrounding co-education and single sex schooling — an issue which , for reasons of space , I have not been able to refer to in this section . |
| 26 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |
| 27 | I have not been able to find any examples of this strategy in my data or in Johns ' data . |
| 28 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |
| 29 | An important work which I have not been able to consult is " Sketches of the Coasts and Islands of Scotland and of the Isle of Man " by Charles John Shore , Baron Teignmouth . |
| 30 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |