Example sentences of "but he has been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 2 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 3 | But he has been learning the ropes since February with Liverpool Playhouse workshop . |
| 4 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 5 | But he has been blinded . |
| 6 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 7 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |
| 8 | But he has been influenced by Old Masters . |
| 9 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 10 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
| 11 | But he has been refused because firms think he is too young . |
| 12 | The whizzkid winger missed all the build-up games while he recovered from a summer knee operation , but he has been included in a 15-man squad . |
| 13 | But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge . |
| 14 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |