Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Chairman , er I do n't often disagree with er Mr in front of me there , but I have been consistent in my approach over the years , er , wherever I 've had the had the opportunity to speak at political meetings and ministers have been present .
2 ‘ The bag is gone forever but I have been able at least to recover this . ’
3 But I have been lucky in all sorts of things .
4 But I have been unfair to the typists .
5 Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers .
6 It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute .
7 But we have been faithful to the Carry On formula and that is what counts .
8 Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again .
9 In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term .
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