Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] n't been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 2 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 3 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 4 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 5 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 6 | British handhelds have n't been too successful in the past ( remember the Gamate ? |
| 7 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Things have n't been quite the same between John and I since I had the twins . |
| 9 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 10 | Plans to admit men have n't been well received by the students at Somerville . |
| 11 | If tonight 's exhibition was anything to go by , they moaned , Faust have n't been up to much during their long absence and have sadly allowed lesser talents to steal much of their thunder . |
| 12 | ‘ School governors have been given increasing responsibility in recent years , but they have n't been adequately prepared and as a result children have n't been properly protected against abuse by teachers , ’ NASWE general secretary Sue Allen told delegates . |
| 13 | The young people leaving school have n't been better off . |
| 14 | Yeah of course you can , I mean my mum have n't been out for weeks |