Example sentences of "but they [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 2 | But they had been better than her family . |
| 3 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 4 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 5 | The Royal Air Force Memorial Fund ( later to become the RAF Benevolent Fund ) had originally hoped to erect a memorial on ground between Westminster Abbey and St Margaret 's Church , but they had been unable to get permission . |
| 6 | But they had been few in number . |
| 7 | Giving graphic details of the 11-hour stand-off , Capt Goebel said Demeke had held the gun to his head or that of his co-pilot for most of the flight , but they had been able to build a rapport with him . |
| 8 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 9 | The fans were right to give me stick but they 've been good to me and it 's great to come off to a reception like that . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah but they 've been open chillers as opposed to closed chillers before have n't they . |
| 11 | Something on the 9221s — the 9730 successors , is also likely , but they have been such poor sellers that there is little interest . |
| 12 | They have been little fires , really , quickly doused , but they have been visible enough to consume the Interest of us club golfers , ever on the alert to condemn the game 's heroes for walking on feet of clay . |
| 13 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 14 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 15 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |