Example sentences of "have n't been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been well , ’ she stuttered . |
| 3 | ‘ You must n't do too much , ’ said Lydia , misguidedly , as Betty took this for further evidence of her goodheartedness ; ‘ you have n't been well . ’ |
| 4 | But then , father , they have n't been well . " |
| 5 | erm , well it just , it just , you know , with her , I mean , she ca n't sit still , I mean to have , I mean I , the last four Saturdays , admittedly I have n't been well , but I 've just been totally indoors sewing . |
| 6 | She said I 'm I 'm just ringing to tell you Joy that you did n't get you you have n't been successful with your application this time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cos , I have n't been impressed . |
| 9 | The programmers have n't been complete bar stools though , 'coz Steg does receive some help . |
| 10 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 11 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 12 | Too many people are able to , and do say , ‘ I have n't been involved with TOP at all ’ . |
| 13 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't been absent all that long , ’ he protested . |
| 15 | Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ These last two days have n't been easy for me . ’ |
| 17 | There have n't been many films that show Dublin as it really is . |
| 18 | there have n't been many ice hockey sims on the 64 — the only two I can recall ( Powerplay Hockey and Superstar Ice Hockey ) were a very long time ago . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 20 | Specialist plumbers will also be needed , but Nick Booth smiles wryly and says that , so far , there have n't been many takers . |
| 21 | The results have n't been good . |
| 22 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 23 | I have n't been long back . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Managers have n't been pleased but I 've done it . |
| 26 | Well , I have n't been married but I have , did recently graduate , and that was a very important day for me |
| 27 | ‘ No one understands loneliness if they have n't been married , ’ Lady Grubb said . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been homesick either , and get regular telephone calls from my parents back home ’ , she explained . |
| 29 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 30 | The have n't been open have they since before Christmas ? |