Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly , however , he had already proposed an alliance with Lloyds but had been rejected . |
| 2 | Clinic surveys in Scotland , America , and Germany have failed to confirm an association but have been criticised for flaws in study design . |
| 3 | English Nature has been opposed to peat extraction but has been powerless to prevent it . |
| 4 | Thereafter they were more widely spaced in both chronology and geography but have been recorded in 1817 – 18 , 1831 ( confined to Cornwall ) , 1847 ( again confined to Cornwall in England , though extensive in Scotland ) and final episodes in Devon in 1854 and 1867 . |
| 5 | She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed . |
| 6 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 7 | This problem has been faced by researchers in the United States but has been largely ignored in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Hsu had twice previously attempted to return to Taiwan but had been quietly turned away by officials nervous of the publicity a trial would attract . |
| 9 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 10 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 11 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 12 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 13 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 14 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 15 | The plan seeks in part to reverse centuries of reclamation of low-lying land for agriculture , which has been successful in increasing crop yields but has been accompanied by a deterioration in the natural environment . |
| 16 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 17 | The Assembly session had opened in February but had been seriously disrupted by DPP protests . |
| 18 | The All Blacks assembled yesterday for a rugged training session but have been unable to prepare themselves fully as the Lions have delayed selection for another 24-hours due to ever increasing injury problems . |
| 19 | The group identified three specific problems : the large number of design and furniture requirements ; the fact that many Woonerven did not meet these requirements ; and that there was no legal regulation for Woonerf-like areas that were not located in residential areas but had been set up in shopping streets ( Winkelerven ) ( Figure 4.9 ) and village centres ( Dorpserven ) . |
| 20 | He has a non-vocational Oxbridge degree but has been thoroughly trained in the operations of the family business and is a shrewd and capable manager with some 32 years of practical experience ( plus 5 years in the army , where he rose to the rank of major ) . |
| 21 | Lithuania is dependent for its oil supplies on Russia but has been plunged into the same economic crisis as its neighbour by the collapse of the communist system . |
| 22 | It was opened in 1976 on land owned by Darlington Borough Council but has been privately managed since 1978 . |
| 23 | Teesside Development Corporation , which has planning powers over the site , said it had considered doing something with the site but had been deterred from making a bid because of site access problems . |
| 24 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 25 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |
| 26 | Mr. Chapman 's last entry in the journal noted that at 8.45 a.m. a ten-year-old boy had been in the sick ward for three days but had been taken much worse . |
| 27 | Discussions over the need for increased powers for the Scottish party were initiated by its nationalist wing but have been seized on by the left as a means of ensuring that Labour 's different electoral aims north and south of the Border do not lead to alienation of the party 's traditional supporters in Scotland . |
| 28 | Young booksellers who would like to attend the conference but have been prevented from doing so by shortage of funds should contact the ICYB vice-president Debby Sutherland at Waterstones , Bath ( ) . |
| 29 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 30 | This company had purchased two new middle-water vessels , the Ben Loyal and Ben Roy but had been unable to make them pay and was obliged to sell them in May 1980 . |