Example sentences of "but [pron] has [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Of course there have been discussions between the Trust and civil servants but nothing has gone to PESC ( the expenditure talks ) . ’
2 England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us .
3 But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst .
4 But nothing has happened .
5 I suffered dreadfully but nothing has happened to him .
6 ‘ The British Legion has been in touch with Warrington Borough Council about putting a plaque on the cenotaph but nothing has happened yet . ’
7 ‘ The war has finished , but nothing has changed .
8 When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago .
9 But nothing has come of it , and the only way to reach Wadi Halfa from Aswan is by a regular boat service that plies the lake .
10 He obviously desired an immediate reply but nothing has come to light to suggest that there was one , favourable or otherwise .
11 He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me .
12 But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll .
13 I 've tried numerous shops , but no-one has heard of them .
14 Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has .
15 The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million .
16 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
17 Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance
18 ‘ They have gone that way , ’ he said , pointing up the path , ‘ but someone has lain here … ’
19 Other musicians may have enjoyed greater financial reward playing this music , but nobody has done it better or with greater flexibility .
20 ‘ I would like to very much , ’ said Alice , ‘ but nobody has invited me yet . ’
21 Tasty maybe but nobody has mentioned the smell .
22 We should note the example of the vast majority of nations , including Canada , which has a Conservative regime , but which has said no to nuclear weapons .
23 One scheme which dates from before privatisation but which has gone ahead , is at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refinery in Greenwich .
24 ‘ The great Utopia : the Russian Avant-garde 1915–32 ’ , at the Stedelijk museum until 31 August is the exhibition previously at the Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt , which some scholars thought might be infiltrated by dubious works ( The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , but which has turned out to be an exceptional show .
25 HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it .
26 On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion .
27 It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others .
28 A company with similar beginnings to Star but which has taken a different direction is ACT , based in Birmingham .
29 Again this contrasts with other research which has examined the labour market status of older workers , but which has sampled directly or indirectly among the unemployed ( Hill et al.
30 Residential roads ( Figure 5.6 ) are all marked with the Tempo 30 sign , but none has received any speed-reducing measures .
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