Example sentences of "we [verb] not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
| 2 | We 've not been long here really have we ? |
| 3 | For the future for erm , for record , we 've not been able in the past to know how people spoke only from books , dictionaries and try to describe how people said things , erm , but this is a living record and I 'm getting more and more embarrassed as the minutes go by and those of you who are doing drama this afternoon , anybody doing drama ? |
| 4 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 5 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 6 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 7 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 8 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 9 | As white lesbians , because of our racism , we had not been able to work out a joint analysis of heterosexism with Black lesbian workers , because we had no knowledge of the implications and ramifications of heterosexism in their lives . |
| 10 | We had not been prepared to give way to health unions with much public support . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and China are not impossible , but we have not been successful there before . |
| 12 | ‘ To be honest , we have not been any busier this year but the accident toll has been higher than in previous times . ’ |
| 13 | As a result ‘ we have not been able to take advantage of what the City has to offer . ’ |
| 14 | The loss of a significant relationship through death is , however , likely to be one that we have not been able to prepare for much in advance , and it is likely to be a loss that we do regret . |
| 15 | And , yes , we have not been able to employ them straight away , though they could come into the orchestra to sit with the principals as a co-pilot sits with the pilot . |
| 16 | Mr Binstead , who says he has investigated many similar offers , none of which have produced loans , said : ‘ We are making inquiries , but we have not been able to establish whether these offers are going to come through . ’ |
| 17 | The plane did not return and we have not been able to find out what happened . |
| 18 | We have not been able to establish if anyone got into the cab with him outside the Civil Engineers ' Hall . |
| 19 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 20 | From this progression it becomes possible to consider chronic diseases either as acute illnesses from which we have not been able to recover fully or as arising from the individual having insufficient ‘ energy ’ , for whatever reason , to develop an acute illness and be done with it ! |
| 21 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 22 | ‘ We have not been able to establish a true motive , ’ said Mr Gough . |
| 23 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 24 | ‘ We have not been able to account for him and we do n't know where he is and we 're very much interested in talking to him , ’ he said . |
| 25 | We regret that this article on the KH864 means we have not been able to bring you Diane Bennett 's regular feature . |
| 26 | We have not been able to trace her . |
| 27 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 28 | Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology , we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics . |
| 29 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 30 | On seeing the deference with which Hocazade was treated , Karamani Mehmed Pasa remarked : " We have not been able to destroy his good repute . |