Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I help with a Sunday League side but I 've been advised not to play . |
| 2 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 3 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 4 | The budget proposal was also assailed for including measures which had been suggested by the Reagan adminstration but which had been abandoned after their rejection by Congress . |
| 5 | Am I right in saying that Susan 's with us for a full year every Wednesday and John is supposed to be with us for a term but it 's been extended has n't it |
| 6 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 7 | The colliery reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form a consortium but it has been beset by production and financial difficulties . |
| 8 | Manager Harry McNally said : ‘ We are not out of the wood but we have been thrown a lifeline . |
| 9 | Mrs Rundle had once had varicose veins but they had been cut out . |
| 10 | Usually dies away in the evening but it has been known to last all night . |
| 11 | This may appear to place a heavy burden on the plaintiff but it has been held that he does not have to identify the exact person responsible for the defect ( Grant v Australian Knitting Mills ) . |
| 12 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 13 | He also referred to US intelligence operations which , he said , he would have presented as evidence in his defence but which had been suppressed . |
| 14 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 15 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 16 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 17 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 18 | This year , for instance , the council asked for permission to spend £25m on tackling the town 's housing problems but it has been allocated only £3.8m one third of which is earmarked for improvement grants to private homes and the rest to ongoing council schemes . |
| 19 | Real Men with John Ritter its , its really wacky , like he 's this fucking secret agent stuff , I never smoke unless its after six and he just , he 's this John Ritter and his got this really mild of character but he 's been mistaken for an , an agent and he 's , he 's , he 's going |
| 20 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 21 | In solutions , which are stabilized in this way by secondary bonding , the LCST usually appears below the boiling temperature of the solvent but it has been found experimentally that an LCST can be detected in non-polar systems when these are examined at temperatures approaching the critical temperature of the solvent . |
| 22 | Schemes of metazoan phylogeny based on molecular evidence but which have been broadened to include information from fossils have been presented before . |
| 23 | The district council had offered to go to Boston to discuss the situation with Digital executives but they had been told there was little they could do . |
| 24 | Racing Santander FC , who will stage the match as a benefit for the Spanish PFA , said yesterday : ‘ An England security man has checked our ground but nothing has been decided about segregation or tickets . ’ |
| 25 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 26 | ‘ We were confident we had the quality to beat our rivals but we had been held back by the exchange rates , ’ said , sales manager plastic compounds . |
| 27 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 28 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 29 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 30 | It is clear that the measure of damages for the conversion of a negotiable instrument is prima facie the face value , not the value as paper but it has been held that this principle is inapplicable to non-negotiable documents such as holiday credit stamps . |