Example sentences of "but they have [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nanking also , they had to build them as a safety measure , but they have either been dismantled or moved out of sight . |
| 2 | Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay . |
| 3 | Some others were fitted a few months ago but they have n't been wired up to the Economy meter and we dare n't use them because we would n't be able to afford the bills . ’ |
| 4 | The nuts have been shelled , but they have not been skinned . |
| 5 | We all take the use of coins for granted , but they have not been made or used by all metalworking societies . |
| 6 | Cracks across the crowns occur quite commonly ( Fig. 3.16A ) , but they have not been counted as breaks unless there is actual separation of the two pieces . |
| 7 | Some North American theses on Scottish geology exist , but they have not been taken into account in the present study . |
| 8 | ‘ The Maktowms have been big spenders at Newmarket , but they have never been made really welcome there , ’ an insider told me . |
| 9 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 10 | Meichenbaum first developed these techniques in 1974 but they have recently been extended and detailed by Meichenbaum and Cameron ( 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics . |
| 12 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 13 | Tigers in southern China formerly supplied much of the demand , but they have now been hunted virtually to extinction . |
| 14 | Instead , the number of synonyms has been calculated , but they have then been ignored by the mathematics , and so have not interfered with the ‘ storage ’ of other records . |