Example sentences of "but [pron] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 2 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 3 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 4 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 5 | and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ? |
| 6 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 7 | She had told her confidante but she had been no help , and how could she approach the Lady Amelia ? |
| 8 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 9 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 10 | In November Lord Woolton , a man of no party affiliation but who had been a successful Minister of Food , was appointed to the task , and was given a seat in the War Cabinet . |
| 11 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 12 | It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice . |
| 13 | Generally they were booked months ahead , but there had been a cancellation on one leaving almost at once . |
| 14 | R : Everyone felt that the campaign had been worthwhile , but there had been a lot of tensions and problems to deal with and so that affected how we all felt at the end . |
| 15 | But there had been a full moon last night , a bomber 's moon with all London laid out clearly for the Luftwaffe pilots . |
| 16 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 17 | But there had been a certain amount of argument with the police and one National Socialist was arrested for obstructing the footway . |
| 18 | The river was n't visible , but there had been a lot of rain over that week and one corner of the field had flooded , leaving a shallow temporary loch reflecting the tarnished dark silver of the clouds ; its waters were still and flat . |
| 19 | But there had been a long-standing dispute between managers , parents and the county over school premises . |
| 20 | Miss Philimore had behaved pleasantly enough , but there had been a calculating set to her narrow mouth that made such a gesture seem unlikely in the extreme . |
| 21 | But there had been a time , early in the nineteenth century , in Shelley 's day , where the head and the heart had stood a chance of marching forward together . |
| 22 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 23 | It had the effect of stabilising the brain but there had been a risk that it would suppress functions such as respiration . |
| 24 | But there had been no sign since Tiananmen Square that the Chinese had been in the least influenced by the disapproval of the West . |
| 25 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 26 | The ministry confirmed high levels of dioxin in the milk following tests carried out in March , and said some of the dairy products entered the food chain but there had been no public health risk . |
| 27 | But there had been no customer in the sweet shop for the last fifteen minutes , and the children had all disappeared from the window . |
| 28 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 29 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 30 | Margaret had returned to work by this time , but there had been no real change in her other problems . |