Example sentences of "but it have be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ceiling there was visible what might have been an original oak cross-beam , but it had been unceremoniously distempered with the rest . |
| 2 | Honesty made her admit she had hoped , but it had been merely dreaming , nothing like this harsh reality . |
| 3 | She had had to put her arms around his neck , but it had been hard keeping her hands from charting the planes of his shoulders as they had wanted to do . |
| 4 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 5 | In the past diethylcarbamazine was widely used , but it has been largely superseded by the drugs mentioned above . |
| 6 | In essence , this is the engine that powered the old V6 R25 , but it has been heavily revised and a bigger bore takes the capacity out to just under three litres . |
| 7 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 8 | He scanned it carefully looking for faults , but it has been well prepared . |
| 9 | Of course , the argument is highly teleological and incapable of scientific proof , but it has been rigorously defended by brilliant minds and can not be lightly dismissed . |
| 10 | It is a daunting task to compile an adequate list , but it has been successfully attempted in such publications as Crane and Kaye 's Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals , 1620–1800 ( 1927 ) , and the Library Association 's Subject-Index to Periodicals . |
| 11 | The , it was officially launched in London yesterday at Ken 's House , unfortunately neither of the two officer 's could go , it was rather short notice , but it has been officially launched now as a national thing . |
| 12 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
| 13 | But it has been further seen that strong justification is needed for adopting a system at variance with prevailing medical views . |
| 14 | But it has been commonly supposed that specifications along threshold level lines must be universally relevant , without reference to the definition of objectives for learning on which the original threshold level specifications are based . |
| 15 | Their forensic tests could probably prove it had been around your neck and in my pocket , but it 's been badly mistreated as a piece of evidence . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It belongs to a certain time , but it 's been highly praised . ’ |
| 17 | I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings , so to speak , but it 's been virtually wrecked — tyres slashed , windows smashed … the works . ’ |