Example sentences of "been [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 2 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 3 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 4 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 6 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 7 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 8 | In France , the Socialist Party has been all but destroyed by crushing defeat in the general election in March . |
| 9 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 10 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 11 | The last dynasty of legitimate Judaic monarchs had been all but extinguished . |
| 12 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 13 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 14 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |
| 15 | The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ . |
| 16 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 17 | She had been all but asleep and possibly incoherent . |
| 18 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 19 | The forests of the Chimanimani mountains , on Zimbabwe 's border with Mozambique , which are among the most species-rich areas of Africa , have been all but destroyed during the 10 years in which the region has been under military control . |
| 20 | Summer is all but gone , school 's in for winter and already there 's movement on the big name concert scene that 's been all but dormant of late . |
| 21 | In short , the unprecedented growth in world trade referred to earlier has been all but curtailed . |
| 22 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 23 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 24 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 25 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 26 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 27 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 28 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 29 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 30 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |