Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] not been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( *indicates a piece of language which is not used or which has not been recorded . ) |
| 2 | It is clearly related to learning , but whereas learning is a matter of accepting and understanding ideas which others have already promulgated , scientific discovery involves the acceptance and understanding of ideas which have not occurred to others , or which have not been published by others . |
| 3 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |
| 4 | This is usually because they have not been adjusted correctly , something has loosened in use or they have not been put on correctly in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 7 | The great bells of the abbey were booming and I idly wondered what would have happened to my life if Jack Hogg and I had not been taken . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 9 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’ |
| 11 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 12 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 13 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 14 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 15 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 16 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 17 | and I have not been rebellious … |
| 18 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 19 | and I have not been rebellious ; |
| 20 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
| 21 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 22 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 23 | I 've seen the laws in action and I have n't been too impressed . |
| 24 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 25 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 26 | ‘ I got back about six-thirty and I have n't been out again . ’ |
| 27 | It 's 1,000 years old and I have n't been diving that long to make a find like that . |
| 28 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 29 | And I have n't been doing it . |
| 30 | I 'm supposed to , watching me diet and I have n't been eating roast potatoes |