Example sentences of "but it have [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 2 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 3 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 4 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 5 | But it had been accepted from the start , without the need for discussion , that this would be a joint expedition . |
| 6 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 7 | London 's share in the mid fifteenth century was similar , but it had been overtaken by Yarmouth and Bristol , with 41.5 per cent and 19 per cent respectively . |
| 8 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 9 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 10 | And , you see , she 'd known it , but it had been entered under another word , in her mind . |
| 11 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 12 | In 1873 the Sao João sugar factory opened with the most modern machinery , but it had been driven into bankruptcy by the 1880s . |
| 13 | The damage to the alliance was eventually repaired , but it had been subjected to the most serious strain of the post-war period . |
| 14 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
| 15 | Chair of the Fire Board , Councillor Bill Axon , said : ‘ The Fire Service has been perceived as a male-dominated , macho career where women ca n't participate , but it has been proven in other brigades that women can take part on an equal footing to males . ’ |
| 16 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 17 | The catch appeared to be faulty , but it has been attended to . ’ |
| 18 | A trade union or union official calling its members out on strike is therefore protected but it has been said to be arguable that an individual striker has no protection against a claim that he uses unlawful means when he withdraws his labour because this situation does not appear to fall within section 13(1) . |
| 19 | The WOCT does not provide age norms , but it has been piloted with groups of normal and handicapped children , aged between 4 and 5 years 5 months , from lower social class backgrounds . |
| 20 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts : it is in the south-east and in the services sector . |
| 23 | The debate has been characterised by deep-seated differences of opinion , but it has been recognised on both sides of the House that the British coal industry faces formidable challenges . |
| 24 | An official announcement was expected at the end of the week , following a final meeting at Pirelli 's Milan headquarters , but it has been delayed by contractual difficulties with some of the company 's existing Italian agencies . |
| 25 | But it has been developed by Perrow to apply to the actions which administrators perform on the objects of their decision-making . |
| 26 | But it has been done before so why not again ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 29 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 30 | What happens to British examples is unknown , but it has been consumed as a delicacy in Europe and North America for centuries . |