Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He has n't been specific yet .
2 But he has n't been right
3 I 'm pretty certain he has n't been married . ’
4 ‘ You know he has n't been unfaithful . ’
5 he has n't been sick
6 Yeah but he ha , maybe he has n't been dead that long has he ?
7 ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’
8 That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since !
9 " It could just be he has n't been able to catch anyone . "
10 He has n't been able to contact the list since , so we 're not sure what became of him .
11 He says that his face was badly burnt and it 's meant he has n't been able to take part in his favourite game of rugby .
12 He has n't been able to tell his family much about the shooting .
13 But he has n't been able to forget what happened .
14 So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the
15 well yeah , he has n't been able
16 no , but he has n't been able to because he has to come round but he 's all ra ra ra ra , whistle whistle whistle .
17 So far he has n't been wrong !
18 He has n't been humble , he has n't grovelled , he is deemed to be arrogant — if he is , it 's probably that inner confidence which has brought him through his ordeal with such sanity and poise .
19 Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years .
20 He has also been involved in doing benefit gigs for Colosseum bandmate , sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith .
21 He has also been involved in the successful annual Swaledale Marathons run by SOC .
22 In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics .
23 But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through .
24 He has also been instrumental in moulding the constitution of the BAF , from its inauspicious start as the draft document prepared by AAA President Arthur McAllister in 1988 , which largely ignored the need to recognise road running as a separate voice , to the 1991 model , which , he believes , has something real to offer .
25 He has also been able to indulge his interest in motor sport through his work for the Order .
26 I can tell by his face that he has not been successful .
27 His achievements as Labour leader have earned him respect and admiration , but he has not been able to appeal beyond the party in which he has made his life .
28 If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months .
29 The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information .
30 Although he has not been able to cure it , he has found it possible to slow the disease down so that it stabilises , banishing the symptoms to allow the fish to grow and feed .
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