Example sentences of "but it have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 2 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 3 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 4 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 5 | At one stage ( 12–7kyr ago ) Lake Suguta covered an area of 2,000km 2 and reached depths of more than 300m , but it has since desiccated in response to an increasingly arid climate . |
| 6 | This has resulted in not only strangers and professionals moving into the arena of dying and death , but it has also led to commercialisation and big business . |
| 7 | One has led to the written constitution , but it has also led to revolution and at times tyranny . |
| 8 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 9 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 10 | This second collapse has produced a new trade union militancy and a growing influence of re-established or new socialist parties , but it has also engendered in several countries a fervent nationalism , so far most intense in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union where it has led to military confrontations . |
| 11 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 12 | But it has also happened for formal reasons which are not good ones at all . |
| 13 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 14 | It is still not fully excavated , but it has already emerged as one of the richest and most extensive prehistoric cemeteries in the Aegean . |
| 15 | Formerly this time was known as " Supply Days " and was used to discuss the grant of supply to the Crown but it has long ceased to be confined to discussion of government spending and is instead used to criticise all aspects of government policy . |
| 16 | The translator described ‘ the party ’ as the collective hero of Serge 's ( 1978 ) Conquered City , but it has always seemed to me that in both that work and in Birth of Our Power ( 1977 ) the great proletarian cities of Petrograd and Barcelona are actors in their own right . |
| 17 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 18 | But it has now grown into a fully-fledged domestic cleaning agency covering an area from Stokesley to Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | Thomas Cook is a slightly different case in that its origins are at the consumer end — as a travel agent chain — but it has now developed into the provision of holiday sector as well , thus generating backward vertical integration . |
| 20 | But it 's only happened in the last five years . |
| 21 | ‘ But it 's all gone past my wildest dream , ’ said Denis , 39 , who has the full support of wife Lynn and three youngsters . |
| 22 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |