Example sentences of "[vb base] not been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Furthermore , there would be no question of the judge , before giving his advice , seeing documents which have not been available to the prisoner . |
| 4 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 5 | And , as we shall also see , the courts have not been adverse to developing the common law to like restrictive effect . |
| 6 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 7 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 8 | These three fungicides are already on a UK Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) list of 100 pesticides up for review , that have not been subject to modern tests . |
| 9 | The regulations have not been subject to a report by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments , but we have printed a memorandum about the statutory instrument that we received from the Department , and made copies of it available . |
| 10 | In general , investors have not been subject to particularly extensive instances where malpractice has damaged the value of their investments . |
| 11 | The removal of persistent residues that give rise to foaming or smells could be an expensive process because they may be from materials that have not been amenable to treatment . |
| 12 | BR have not been able to very helpful in this direction , largely because of the financial constraints imposed on them . |
| 13 | ‘ But surely you have not been unfaithful to him ? ’ |
| 14 | It is essential for archaeologists to approach their subject without personal or political prejudice , since past and present governments have not been averse to misusing archaeological data for nationalistic purposes . |
| 15 | I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing . |
| 16 | The 1980s have not been kind to Bolivia — and especially not to its devastated tin-mining communities . |
| 17 | The last ten years have not been kind to him . |
| 18 | Individuals may not declare all their income , particularly if they have not been truthful to the Inland Revenue or the DSS . |
| 19 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |
| 20 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 21 | And they have n't been able to totally accept what 's wrong with Mum , you know , that some of her behavioural problems are n't her being vindictive . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 23 | Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 25 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ said Lucy , ‘ I have n't been fair to you . |