Example sentences of "but the [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 2 | Nobody is playing as yet , but the lines have been freshly painted , a large old roller is being stored by an elderly man with tribal scars on his cheeks ( like the marks made by French grill pans on bifteck ) , and a big jug of lemon squash is standing in the shade of a little thatched tennis house , protected from the desires of wasps and flies by a beaded lace doily . |
| 3 | Police investigating sex attacks at knife-point on a 29-year-old Filipino woman said that they ‘ believe there may have been earlier victims — but the women have been too ashamed to report the attacks ’ ( Mail on Sunday ) . |
| 4 | But the skills have been almost forgotten and that 's what makes reviving them so difficult . |
| 5 | Capitalism survived but the writers have been largely forgotten . |
| 6 | But the campaigns have been very amateurish and low-key and many of the younger people are not interested . |
| 7 | It will be hard for us to be away from Andrew and Peter over Christmas and New Year but the boys have been really encouraging , telling us to go for all God has for us . |
| 8 | Purchasers of health care have tried to adjust their expected intervention rates to allow for activity in the private sector , but the calculations have been extremely crude because local data have not been available . |
| 9 | But the populars had been harder hit . |