Example sentences of "but have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 2 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 3 | Research in Scottish geology has been carried out in 21 institutions , but has been concentrated in rather fewer . |
| 4 | The tax rebate relating to prior years ' tax paid was recognised in last year 's accounts as an extraordinary tax credit , but has been included in taxation on profit on ordinary activities in these accounts in accordance with FRS3 . |
| 5 | Pouchitis has not occurred in patients with constipation or megacolon but has been found in three of 24 patients with familial adenomatous polyposis . |
| 6 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 7 | The controversial new tax had been approved by the House of Commons in early 1990 but had been blocked in the Senate where the opposition Liberal Party held a majority . |
| 8 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 9 | There was the ubiquitous Triptych , now a four-year-old : she had won only one race in the 1986 season but had been placed in the Coronation Cup ( beaten a short head by Saint Estephe ) , the Coral-Eclipse Stakes , the King George , the Matchmaker International at York ( beaten threequarters of a length by Shardari ) and the Phoenix Champion Stakes ( third to Park Express ) . |
| 10 | Silver Buck , now eleven , had won four of his five races during the 1982–3 season but had been beaten in the King George by Wayward Lad , who had not run since and whose participation at Cheltenham had been in doubt until a searching gallop had proved his readiness . |
| 11 | Both Stoph and Kessler had been arrested in late 1989 in connection with corruption investigations [ see p. 37107 ] , but had been released in January and February 1990 respectively . |
| 12 | This was first thought of not by Fleischmann and Pons nor by Palmer and Jones , but had been anticipated in Europe , India and the Soviet Union up to 50 years earlier . |
| 13 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 14 | The central block was originally Jacobean but had been gothicised in the late eighteenth century . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | Thereafter they were more widely spaced in both chronology and geography but have been recorded in 1817 – 18 , 1831 ( confined to Cornwall ) , 1847 ( again confined to Cornwall in England , though extensive in Scotland ) and final episodes in Devon in 1854 and 1867 . |
| 17 | The difficulties of achieving comparability of sampling , measurement , and outcome criteria across cultures are enormous but have been addressed in the WHO 's transcultural schizophrenia research programme , where in one study a cross-sectional sample covering eight countries was followed up over two years . |
| 18 | These complications are rare in males but have been described in male homosexuals . |
| 19 | Feminists have approached the work of Irigaray eagerly , looking for a theory which would help to understand and change the situation of women , but have been divided in their interpretations of her writing . |
| 20 | In chapter 13 the Group suggests that , for pupils taught mainly through the medium of Welsh , the programmes of study but not the attainment targets for English in key stage 2 will need modification , to accommodate the matters , skills and processes which have been included in the English programmes of study for key stage 1 but have been disapplied in respect of such pupils in key stage 1 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 1.67 The original working rules for courts when awarding interest were laid down by the Court of Appeal in Jefford v Gee [ 1970 ] 2 QB 130 , but have been modified in Cookson v Knowles [ 1979 ] AC 556 ; Pickett v British Rail Engineering Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 136 ; Birkett v Hayes [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 876 and Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] AC 773 . |
| 23 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |