Example sentences of "that [pron] have not been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 2 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 3 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 5 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 6 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 7 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 8 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 9 | Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 13 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 15 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 16 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 17 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 18 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 19 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 20 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It was Charlton 's 11th away success — a League best — and their achievements are all the more commendable coming in the wake of last year 's relegation , the departure of manager Lennie Lawrence , the on-off move back to the Valley and the fact that they have not been able to compete in the transfer market . |
| 25 | The majority of candidates who fail do so because they have been so nervous that they have not been able to think clearly , far less to perform well . |
| 26 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 27 | Raynor paused , looking down into the half-closed eyes , and saw Grainne smile , and saw , as well , that despite her apparent tranquillity , she had been nervous , and that it had not been easy for her to come to his room . |
| 28 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 29 | One of the authors , John Perry , director of the Institute of Housing , said yesterday that it had not been possible to calculate a Scottish figure because of differences in the financial systems . |
| 30 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |