Example sentences of "but there [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way . |
| 2 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 3 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 4 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 5 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 6 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 7 | ‘ I have never been physically assaulted by a client but there have been circumstances when I 've thought I should be a bit careful . |
| 8 | But there have been one or two things this year . ’ |
| 9 | But there have been delays . |
| 10 | The vole prefers slow-moving rivers , pools and marshy areas with some deep water whose level changes little , but there have been great changes to Britain 's wetlands during the past 40 years as a result of agricultural intensification . |
| 11 | ‘ But there have been failures . |
| 12 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 13 | He has had the benefit of a fine son and beautiful daughters , but there have been no more great plays . ’ |
| 14 | Captain Pugwash is probably his best-known character but there have been many others : Harris Tweed , Lettice Leefe , Mary , Mungo and Midge , Sir Prancelot , and Cardinal Grotti in the Catholic Herald . |
| 15 | In general , education has reinforced society 's values , but there have been some experimental attempts at providing education to radicalise values . |
| 16 | The law gives dividing lines , but there have been changes over time . |
| 17 | It looks timeless but there have been changes . |
| 18 | But there have been worse experiences since then , the ultimate loss of identity in the faceless , featureless blocks that have risen to replace individualized and characterful termini : Rotterdam Central ( 1957 ) , Munich ( 1963 ) , Leningrad Finland Station ( 1960 ) , London Euston ( 1968 ) , Paris Gare Montparnasse ( 1969 ) , Berne Central ( 1974 ) , Warsaw Central ( 1975 ) , and Milton Keynes ( 1983 ) . |
| 19 | It may evoke nostalgia now , or appear quaintly naïve , but there have been periods when crime and disorder seemed soluble , if not yet totally vanished , problems . |
| 20 | Further north still , Canada has no major volcanoes , but there have been some eruptions in prehistoric times . |
| 21 | A levels have been the subject of considerable criticism over the years , but there have been few serious demands that they should be replaced . |
| 22 | But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave . |
| 23 | But there have been significant changes in the nature of stealing since the Second World War . |
| 24 | Most of the philosophy of the transcendent is from the East , but there have been those in the . |
| 25 | As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant . |
| 26 | The manager has always remained the same , but the TV presenter has not only changed each time but there have been serious discrepancies in the age , gender and sexual proclivities of this mysterious media personality . |
| 27 | But there have been changes . |
| 28 | But there have been costs . |
| 29 | But there have been a series of large withdrawals since then . |
| 30 | Nearly all the records are for the period December to March with a distinct peak in February , but there have been two April records since 1947 , one for May ( 2nd , 1956 , Rye ) , one for October ( 16th , 1969 , Pevensey ) , and one for 13 November 1971 in the Adur Levels ; there are also two old records for November . |