Example sentences of "but [pron] has been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He says there are currently three contractors who are being prosectued but nothing has been proved against them yet . |
| 3 | Technology is ‘ old-style ’ Philips 16 bit , the system that preceded the current and mor fashionable Bitstream process , but which has been found to be easier to ‘ tweak ’ for a desired effect . |
| 4 | At stake the image of a party which prides itself on being loyal , but which has been riven by dissent . |
| 5 | Beta Boo¨tis ( 3.5 ) is the nearest fairly bright star to the radiant of the meteor shower seen in early January , known as the Quadrantid shower because this was the region of a constellation , Quadrans ( the Quadrant ) which was proposed by J. E. Bode in 1775 but which has been deleted from modern maps . |
| 6 | In fact , although there are both surreal and baroque elements in his work , Gironella prefers to call it mestizo ’ , a term which has often had negative , racist overtones but which has been acclaimed in this century , especially in Mexico , as a positive value , indeed the distinguishing feature of Mexican culture : the rich and fruitful mixture of the European with the indigenous American . |
| 7 | But somebody has been sent to prison , they are the sort of person who you would think of , should never be sent to prison , somebody who has diddled his firm out of a couple of thousand . |
| 8 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |
| 9 | What richness of tribal tradition and history was lost in the process is a depressing thought , But something has been saved from extinction . |
| 10 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 11 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 12 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |
| 13 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 14 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
| 15 | The whizzkid winger missed all the build-up games while he recovered from a summer knee operation , but he has been included in a 15-man squad . |
| 16 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The catch appeared to be faulty , but it has been attended to . ’ |
| 20 | 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) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts : it is in the south-east and in the services sector . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But it has been developed by Perrow to apply to the actions which administrators perform on the objects of their decision-making . |
| 28 | But it has been done before so why not again ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |