Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Old Trafford favourite has n't been idle since a knee injury forced him to quit the game nearly two years ago . |
| 2 | Our luck has n't been that hot so far . |
| 3 | And because the horse has n't been upset , it is more likely to be co-operative next time it is to be shod . |
| 4 | Ms Mackenzie first approached the Environmental Committee last May , but so far the result has n't been encouraging . |
| 5 | But this kind of razamatazz has n't been necessary for the XJ220 . |
| 6 | The cashmere shawl had n't been expensive . |
| 7 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 8 | They 're angry the motor racing team has n't been able to improve on the reportedly £7million offer to tempt him back . |
| 9 | The win was a good one , in a season when confidence has n't been high . |
| 10 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed argued in his nineteen forty seven document that the May the fourth directive ha dire directive had n't been thorough enough . |
| 13 | His behaviour has n't been odd and speaking to his cell mate this morning it seems that he did n't speak to very many people either . |
| 14 | The problem 's arisen because surface water has n't been able to drain away . |
| 15 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 16 | But when you consider today 's high prices , should we have to pay more — especially when the service has n't been good ? |
| 17 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |
| 18 | We had spent most of the morning going through our kit , because a Rumanian and an Irishman had n't been able to pronounce one of the lines of a song correctly . |
| 19 | The crew had n't been able to knock in ( ‘ locate ’ , for the purposes of the Captain 's log ) the nose-wheel pin . |
| 20 | The season has n't been kind to Somerset 's Ricky Bartlett . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid this last week has n't been wonderful for , for practice . |
| 22 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 24 | This beautiful Old English Sheepdog had n't been able to compete at Crufts this year because his co-owner had been judging . |
| 25 | I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais had n't been able to do to a nation . |
| 26 | Our path together in life has n't been easy — there was very little support available for parents whose babies were diagnosed brain damaged in Australia in 1980 . |
| 27 | Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . |
| 28 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 29 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 30 | Marie Claire in her turn had n't been interested in me . |