Example sentences of "but have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YTP is the Northern Ireland equivalent of the YTS , but has been the joint responsibility of the Northern Ireland Departments of Economic Development and of Education , not the MSC or the Training Agency . |
| 2 | This development is not a fad , but has been an established trend indicated by objective demographic and food survey statistics . |
| 3 | He had won the Dewhurst Stakes by six lengths as a two-year-old but had been a 33–1 chance for the Derby in the spring of 1953 until an impressive victory in the Newmarket Stakes brought his odds down to 8–1 . |
| 4 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |
| 5 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |