Example sentences of "been [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 2 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 3 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 4 | In an intermediate situation where injuries have been sustained but these are not serious , it is again extremely unlikely that the police would pursue an investigation where the wife refuses to co-operate . |
| 5 | A number of ancient suture zones representing previous plate collisions have been recognized but only a few of these , such as the Urals and the Appalachians formed 300 to 250 MaBP , are major relief features at the present day , most having been extensively eroded and covered by later sediments . |
| 6 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ I do n't know which constituency Mr Fallon has been canvassing but it certainly is n't Darlington . |
| 7 | After tedious checks a clutch of people who had been seen on Hampstead Heath around the time of the death had been traced but none could be linked to the murder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The organo-mercury treatments have been withdrawn but other effective materials are now available . |
| 10 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 11 | More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment . |
| 12 | As they would tell the story , the USSR would long ago have been crushed but for these measures . |
| 13 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 14 | It has never been excavated but was clearly extensive . |
| 15 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
| 16 | The specificity of the polymerase chain reaction primers has previously been validated but the sensitivity was reassessed . |
| 17 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 18 | I am naturally particularly interested in the Carmel Wood IDO claim , which I presume has been registered but my interest goes beyond this to encompass all the claims that have been made in Wales , which presumably are now subject to the same procedures being applied by your authority . |
| 19 | Mr Ken Hipwood of Anglian Water said that the costs of dealing with the nitrate problem had been calculated but they were being kept secret . ’ |
| 20 | Most of the Western world 's best sites have now been developed but potential still exists in less developed countries ; Zaire , for example , contains half of Africa 's hydro-electric potential . |
| 21 | A substantial part of the industrial land has been developed but the job yield has been far below initial expectations . |
| 22 | He turned to the wall where it should have been hanging but there was only an empty bracket . |
| 23 | Conservatism in Britain has been multifaceted but that tradition has been dominant . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that it is not the spelling of individual words that you are trying to teach , but the basic spelling patterns , so that pupils can spell correctly words they have n't been taught but want to write . |
| 25 | At the moment , only inshore wind farms have been erected but there is great potential in offshore wind . |
| 26 | Lautro 's Rules have now been amended but when the intervention notice was served on 31 October 1990 , they were defective in not giving a right of appeal to a person or body in the position of W. Plc. , and in not giving such a person the right to have the decision to serve the notice rescinded . |
| 27 | Additionally , in some urban areas neighbourhood councils have been formed but these have no statutory functions and merely provide a sounding board for local opinion . |
| 28 | Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players , we remained sceptical ! |
| 29 | These complaints may have been justified but the settlers had another dispute with the philanthropists ; they agitated to be allowed to own slaves like their neighbours to the north and eventually they were successful . |
| 30 | However , at the financial year end all the invoices that had been received but had not been paid would be collected together for each department say , and a total entry would be put through the books accruing all the payments due to be made . |