Example sentences of "but it have [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a beard — true enough — but it had been connected to a man 's face for many many years . |
| 2 | It had been hoped to have the English version ready for publication by Easter this year but it had been delayed principally because of objections to the use ‘ inclusive language ’ . |
| 3 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 4 | But it had been decentralised without attacking the big cost structures and without the addition of any procedures , with the result that two functional layers were beginning to develop business managers were starting to grow their own subsidiary boards with their own functional capability while the organisation as a whole retained its own capability . |
| 5 | But it had been raining and the surface of the yard had been washed clear of any traces . |
| 6 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 7 | But it had been accepted from the start , without the need for discussion , that this would be a joint expedition . |
| 8 | Now this woman had always been aware of the as a child , she had always known it , it had n't be unconscious in the sense she 'd forgotten it , but it had been isolated , it has been given a new name , and ca unfortunately I ca n't remember what it was , but it was , it was completely er innocuous , the name was the term she used was totally innocuous . |
| 9 | A legal opinion requested by the Attorney-General , Richard Thornburgh , effected the change in June , but it had been kept secret since then . |
| 10 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 11 | There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago . |
| 12 | The wood of the planks was almost white , but it had been sanded and then varnished with gums and resins until it glistened . |
| 13 | London 's share in the mid fifteenth century was similar , but it had been overtaken by Yarmouth and Bristol , with 41.5 per cent and 19 per cent respectively . |
| 14 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 15 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 16 | Nobody expected it to be competitive but it had been thought that any team serious enough to build and enter a grand prix car should be competent enough to make it last more than five consecutive laps . |
| 17 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 18 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 19 | And , you see , she 'd known it , but it had been entered under another word , in her mind . |
| 20 | The cask was later recovered , but it had been forced open and emptied . |
| 21 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 22 | In 1873 the Sao João sugar factory opened with the most modern machinery , but it had been driven into bankruptcy by the 1880s . |
| 23 | The damage to the alliance was eventually repaired , but it had been subjected to the most serious strain of the post-war period . |
| 24 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
| 25 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 26 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 27 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 28 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | But it has been argued here that we should go further than that , and recognize that political democracy itself has not been realized simply by giving every adult person a vote in general and local elections . |