Example sentences of "but it have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 2 | But it had been days since he had managed to obtain a good , large dish of fresh-cooked vegetables . |
| 3 | A legal opinion requested by the Attorney-General , Richard Thornburgh , effected the change in June , but it had been kept secret since then . |
| 4 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 5 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 6 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |
| 7 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 8 | But it had been she and Eleanor who had become the friends , though the distinction was never made in public . |
| 9 | It was easy to keep promising that some sun and heat would work its usual miracle but it had been a hard , cold winter and almost everyone had suffered from influenza , Mrs Browning worst of all . |
| 10 | I had n't timed the fifty yards but it had been no sprint . |
| 11 | But it had been Elisabeth and Daniel themselves who , in 1939 , elected to spend the whole summer alone on Møn , rather than accompany their parents to South America . |
| 12 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 13 | He had been scared then but it had been short-lived : terror lasting a matter of a few seconds , a minute at most . |
| 14 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 15 | But it had been a very close-run thing . |
| 16 | He had turned away and tried to avoid his eye , but it had been him , no question . |
| 17 | He had changed his name , of course , but it had been obvious to Fedorov that he was the same man he had disposed of in the Stadtpark three weeks before . |
| 18 | But it had been close and the children had never taken liberties with the river again . |
| 19 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 20 | He had achieved his aim of recreating the days of his ancestors , at least in part , but it had been at a great cost . |
| 21 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 22 | But it had been a heavy agenda : the revised safety plan still in draft ; the rationalization of the internal structure from the present seven departments to three under engineering , production and resources ; the report of the district survey laboratory on their monitoring of the environment ; the preliminary agenda for the local liaison committee . |
| 23 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 24 | In 1873 the Sao João sugar factory opened with the most modern machinery , but it had been driven into bankruptcy by the 1880s . |
| 25 | The hours undergoing questioning at the police headquarters were an added strain ; but it had been an extra strain , too , waiting to be questioned , and not knowing when or if it would happen . |
| 26 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 27 | But it had been too much for Gurder . |
| 28 | But it had been enough to ensure him , at least pictorially , a vicarious immortality . |
| 29 | But it had been Mrs McBride who had started as she meant to go on . |
| 30 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |