Example sentences of "[vb infin] been but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 2 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 3 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 4 | Well I could have been but I could n't have voted . |
| 5 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 6 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 7 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 8 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 9 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 10 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 11 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 12 | I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember . |
| 13 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 14 | It could have been but you found |
| 15 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 16 | With the absence of any wind and the greens softer than they would have been but for the rain of Tuesday , the course was , as Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ there for the taking ’ . |
| 17 | The first person must have been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Act or would have been but for a defence in sections 24 or 25 , Coupe v. Guyett ( 1973 D.C. ) . |
| 18 | A judge should be obliged when passing sentence to state what the sentence would have been but for the plea of guilty . |