Example sentences of "been but " in BNC.
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| 1 | is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system . |
| 2 | As he lay dying , a kinsman , Sir John Sinclair , asked how he did : ‘ Right evil , cousin , but thanked be God there hath been but few of mine ancestors that hath died in their beds . ’ |
| 3 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 4 | The stillness at dawn had been but a prelude . |
| 5 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 6 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 7 | He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain . |
| 8 | But what have we been but Frank and Saracen , yoked like camel and ass to the plough ? |
| 9 | Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship . |
| 10 | ‘ It must be the full moon , ’ Lee grumbled , melting butter in a saucepan , and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night . |
| 11 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |
| 12 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 13 | Well I could have been but I could n't have voted . |
| 14 | Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is . |
| 15 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 16 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 17 | ( B ) in their design office and the three defendants ( A ) were officials of the A.E.S.D. Union , two of them also being employees of B.O.A.C. C had been but was no longer a member of the Union . |
| 18 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 19 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 20 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 21 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 22 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 23 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 24 | I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember . |
| 25 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 26 | I 've not been but they say there are . |
| 27 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 28 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 29 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 30 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |