Example sentences of "but there have been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 2 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |
| 3 | But there have been so many of these little mistakes , you see , that we 've been obliged to have a warrant made out . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 5 | The British Cabinet has been the focal point of much general argument among students of politics , but there have been very few detailed case-studies produced which show how individual decisions were made at that level . |
| 6 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 7 | There were sixteen riders that year , but there have been as many as twenty-two or sometimes only nine or ten . |
| 8 | no , I do n't , but there 's been that many |