Example sentences of "they [verb] n't [be] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 4 | But they had n't been near enough . |
| 5 | They had n't been able to light a fire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They wanted to reopen Sadler 's Wells with Carmen , Aida , Trovatore , operas they had n't been able to perform during the war . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there . |
| 14 | They had n't been able to contact the elderly woman , who lived there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 17 | But then , father , they have n't been well . " |
| 18 | ‘ No one understands loneliness if they have n't been married , ’ Lady Grubb said . |
| 19 | There are many documents that can be happily produced at 300dpi and either photocopied or short-run printed and no-one will ever be aware that they have n't been typeset . |
| 20 | Because really in my view it should be that once something like this happened then it should be on the owners to prove they have n't been negligent . |
| 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 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 23 | on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time . |
| 24 | ‘ They have n't been able to protect me so far , ’ Donna snapped . |
| 25 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 26 | Apparently the , he said they 've had one of them up in court twenty seven times and they have n't been able to prove it yet |
| 27 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 28 | I know , I they have n't been open all this week . |
| 29 | They have n't been wrong yet . ’ |