Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb past] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 2 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 3 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 4 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 5 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 6 | Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) . |
| 7 | The most immediate effect of the ruling was that legislation enacted in a number of states ( including Alabama , Idaho , Kansas , Maine , and North Dakota ) which continued similar provisions to those within the Pennsylvania law , but which had been beset by legal challenges , would almost certainly be declared constitutional . |
| 8 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 9 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 10 | The restaurant will be in a ground-floor room where Wright had intended to place it , but which had been occupied by the conservation department , ( now relocated , with the museum 's storage facilities , to the city 's West Side ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On 14 March 1643 he petitioned the House of Lords for payment for 300 barrels of gunpowder which he had shipped from Amsterdam , but which had been confiscated by Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , for use by the parliamentary armies . |
| 13 | Blood samples were also taken from 24 patients who were attending the general nephrology clinics and had a similar degree of CRF. 12 ( 50% ) patients in the CRF group were receiving phosphate binders and 9 ( 38% ) were receiving sodium bicarbonate , but none had been treated with erythropoietin . |
| 14 | None of these changes were deliberate , but none had been approved by MCC . |
| 15 | Her family were farmers , but she had been sent by her employer to learn the finer points of cuisine and household management from the master chef and the housekeeper at the Savoy . |
| 16 | Shelley was n't usually violent , but she had been tested beyond what she thought was right . |
| 17 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 18 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 19 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 20 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 21 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 22 | We began to take men who had volunteered for the guards , but who had been found by senior Service Medical Officers to be suffering from tuberculosis . |
| 23 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 24 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 25 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 26 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 27 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
| 28 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 29 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 30 | Haeckel 's holistic philosophy would inspire a later generation of environmentalists , but he had been trained as a morphologist and sought other ways of displaying the unity of Nature . |