Example sentences of "they [verb] not been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do .
2 So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant .
3 They 've not capitulated because they 've not been prepared to fight , they 've capitulated because there was no coordinated er , organizations to pull them together .
4 The general member auditors , er , I 'm told that they , they look after the money they 've not been able to find themselves seats I understand this morning , so hopefully everything 's in order but somewhere around Eric George and Arthur are they around ?
5 And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since .
6 Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money .
7 But then they had n't been alone for any time before .
8 But they had n't been near enough .
9 They had n't been able to light a fire .
10 They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease .
11 He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed .
12 There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years .
13 They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war .
14 erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon .
15 Often the timbers were no more than columns of sort of dampish dust because they had n't been able to breathe in this kind of brick envelope .
16 He had had her arrested for theft , but , although the jade was gone , they had n't been able to prove she had taken it .
17 They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there .
18 They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there .
19 No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern .
20 They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name .
21 The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden .
22 They had not been timid .
23 Besides , TANU members had been involved in the press , while they had not been involved in radio .
24 Any feelings Hope had for her — and though they had included a certain measure of respect and the possibility of desire , they had not been strong — now alchemised into a quite violent dislike .
25 The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ .
26 If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia .
27 They had not been reachable when they were phoned in the night !
28 But Mr Davidson felt they had not been unfair in their treatment of him .
29 They had not been positive .
30 Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back .
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