Example sentences of "but these [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something of the sort had been attempted by the late Victorian youth organizations , but these had been unable to reach the mass teen-age population ; and had also failed to agree on a coherent programme attractive to the different reforming interests . |
| 2 | Japan had long-standing territorial ambitions regarding Korea , her nearest neighbour , but these had been held in abeyance during the Tokugawa period . |
| 3 | The royal grant which had offered Richard the best chance of a viable power base had been that of the forfeited de Vere estates , made in August 1462 , but these had been restored to the earl of Oxford at the beginning of 1464 . |
| 4 | On Sept. 30 , China had announced proposed measures to open its markets over a period of six months in response to US demands in August , but these had been rejected by Hills as " unsatisfactory " . |
| 5 | The royal grant which had offered Richard the best chance of a viable power base had been that of the forfeited de Vere estates , made in August 1462 , but these had been restored to the earl of Oxford at the beginning of 1464 . |
| 6 | From the beginning heads of missions had had secretaries who often played an important role ; but these had been recruited and paid by the diplomats themselves and had been merely their personal servants . |
| 7 | It has very strict rules , both in its Charter and in its own Guide to Producers , but these have been increasingly flouted . |
| 8 | ( They were also wholly responsible for the creation of a further 37 places in the adult placement or ‘ fostering ’ scheme , but these have been excluded from the following analysis . ) |
| 9 | This central part , with its huge and impressive glass cupola , was once decorated with niched statues , but these have been removed as they were too difficult to keep clean . |
| 10 | In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core . |
| 11 | Just a few remain but these have been enlarged and each employs more men than before . |
| 12 | But these have been so badly eroded that the controlling guards of critical thought are down . |
| 13 | They had homes and jobs in their own country but these have been burned and stripped away from them through no fault of their own . |
| 14 | But these have been relatively rare phenomena , with small , alternative media constantly struggling to survive and dependent on financial support from donor agencies due to women 's inability to pay for such information flows . |
| 15 | Each side has maintained its own perceptual bubble but these have been made compatible so they fit together as a whole . |
| 16 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 17 | Older taps are likely to be the rising spindle kind ( see drawing ) , but these have been widely replaced with shrouded-head taps with non-rising spindles . |
| 18 | The fifth paragraph of that has the proposed council tax bands the county council services but these have been amended by a letter you 've been sent dated the twenty- first of January , as a result of information from council regarding their tax base . |
| 19 | We are very conscious of the problems on the seafront but these have been recognised . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a time when all of the major companies had creches , but these have been closed down , ’ said Mr Farries . |