Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] but [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court will not make an order unless it considers it just and equitable to do so having regard , in particular , to the number of shareholders who have been traced but who have not accepted the offer . |
| 2 | Kevin 's been done but I 've not given him anything back in writing yet , which I 've go to do . |
| 3 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of bad things have been said but I 've fulfilled a lifelong dream this season for which I 've worked very hard . ’ |
| 5 | one of them thingies , one of them jacks , and then you 've got one of them , I do n't even , I do n't know what they 're called but I 've seen it before |
| 6 | Only tiny amounts of essential oils are used but they have a big effect |
| 7 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 8 | That figure does not include people whose homes have been damaged but who have not contacted the authority . |
| 9 | Several other types of position transducer , including capacitive and inductive sensors built into the motor , have been proposed but none have been successful commercially . |
| 10 | ‘ There were few people to whom problems could be referred but you had to make things work . |
| 11 | The civic culture may be weakened but it has not collapsed . |
| 12 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 13 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 14 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 15 | Wilson , whose own competence left something to be desired but who had learned from experience , had already centralised the finances which he had accused branches of the old union of frittering away . |
| 16 | I may be crippled but I have the use of my eyes and my intelligence . ’ |
| 17 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 18 | The money had been taken but there had been no communication from the kidnappers . |
| 19 | In the great storm of October 1987 , many of the original trees in that avenue were uprooted but they have been replaced with young lime trees . |
| 20 | Lewis did not like being corrected but he had to take it , and with a smile . |
| 21 | He says there are currently three contractors who are being prosectued but nothing has been proved against them yet . |
| 22 | He said the brakes were worn but it had not contributed to the tragedy . |
| 23 | Their Phyllanthus epiphyllanthus from the West Indies had been lost but he had seen one in the physic garden at Amsterdam where , with proper management , it was in great vigour . |
| 24 | It does take time , about two hours for each member of staff when preparation and writing is included but it has been an investment that has repaid the school with great dividends . |
| 25 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that in some rural areas , clitoridectomy is practised but there have been no confirmed reports and it would seem unlikely as it was not a characteristic of Meso-american cultures . |
| 27 | This charge also applies to items which would normally have been returned but which have been guaranteed by a Barclays Connect card or cheque guarantee card . |
| 28 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 29 | It was locked but he has a flat on the ground floor of the same building . |
| 30 | Her face was peaked but she had slept well . |