Example sentences of "but have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zipper , a gay sex shop in North London , has a licence but has been raided on numerous occasions by the Obscene Publications Squad . |
| 2 | Breeding is also unusual near the coast , but has been recorded at five sites . |
| 3 | It is usually a shelf species but has been recorded from 1665 m . |
| 4 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 5 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 6 | The Eurasian steppes had its own bison , the wisent , which was almost extinct in the early decades of this century but has been rescued by captive breeding , and the small saiga antelope , with its peculiar dust-trap of a nose , in shape like an elephant seal 's . |
| 7 | The Theogonist 's leadership value is not therefore used , but has been included for comparative purposes . |
| 8 | It is not a colour-marking breed , but has been exported to several countries in Europe , North America and Australasia . |
| 9 | Pouchitis has not occurred in patients with constipation or megacolon but has been found in three of 24 patients with familial adenomatous polyposis . |
| 10 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 11 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 12 | The shortest route through Kent , entering London from the south , was clearly the best but had been rejected for political reasons , he added . |
| 13 | The accord replaced the 1983 Defence and Economic Co-operation Agreement [ see p. 32588 ] which had expired in December 1988 but had been extended at six-monthly intervals since then in view of the political uncertainties in Greece . |
| 14 | Mr Jenkin said he and other British politicians opposed to Maastricht had tried to get this message across in the run-up to the referendum , but had been defeated by those urging people to vote yes . |
| 15 | The possibility that some fossils corresponded to species no longer alive today had been noted even in the late seventeenth century , but had been put on one side until now . |
| 16 | RICO was originally intended for use against organized crime [ see p. 35503 ] , but had been used in 1988 in a number of financial malpractice cases including that of Drexel Burnham Lambert [ see below ] . |
| 17 | All three are inherent components of the natural earth surface processes that occur in arid and semi-arid regions but have been exacerbated by human activity . |
| 18 | The materials have not been used within traditional library lessons , but have been integrated into day-to-day practice of teaching . |
| 19 | ‘ The two bishops are still part of the order but have been released from certain requirements . |
| 20 | Some cases do n't seem to have any physical cause at all , but have been linked to intangible factors such as times of stress , anxiety or depression , although this is quite rare . |
| 21 | These complications are rare in males but have been described in male homosexuals . |
| 22 | Man-made fibres can be split into two groups , those that are derived from natural sources but have been transformed by chemical treatment , and those that are made totally from chemical sources and are therefore synthetic . |
| 23 | Japanese attempts to change Japan in the last 150 years have been both imitative and derivative , but have been accompanied by conscious and unconscious retention of indigenous characteristics and the ‘ simulation ’ of traditional Japanese attributes , plus a fair measure of originality . |
| 24 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |