Example sentences of "[noun] but have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rabina Ali , who 's twenty one , was born in Pakistan but has a British passport . |
| 2 | He makes his fencing debut in the Halloween Novice Chase but has a useful opponent in Young Snugfit ( 2.00 ) , who may make experience tell , having jumped well and quickened impressively to beat Brave Defender by ten lengths at Kempton last month . |
| 3 | The Belgian Red Pied is also a dual-purpose type but has a great deal more red in the coat than the White-and-Red . |
| 4 | They have little interest in potatoes but have a great regard for brassicas of all descriptions : cabbages , kale , sprouts , cauliflowers , and the like . |
| 5 | Each air eye shares a lens with a water eye but has a separate pupil and retina . |
| 6 | The second influence , , is a random variable , the value of which can be positive or negative in any period but has a mean value of zero . |
| 7 | Again there was wide consultation both within the Church and outside it , for Archbishops and Bishops are not just figures of local importance but have a national importance as well as leaders of the Church of the English People . |
| 8 | The brands , owned by the Sheep Dip Whisky Company , are not flavoured by either sheep dip or pig 's nose but have a promising cult following among farmers . |
| 9 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 10 | It is well illustrated and includes problems and a glossary but has a scanty index . |
| 11 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 12 | She ca n't remember how she spent that day but has a vague memory of being like a wild animal howling through the house , tears pouring down her face , drinking brandy , tearing at her clothes , pulling his clothes out of the wardrobe and holding them close to her , burying her face in them , trying to recover the smell of him . |
| 13 | For instance , Maria Gough as Cassandra brings great energy and commitment but has a modern prettiness where the implacability of the classical mask might have made her more awesome and compelling . |
| 14 | Elephants , which lack colour vision but have a strong sense of smell and favour large , smelly , dull fruits , are the only animals able to swallow the pyrene of Panda oleosa ( Pandaceae ) and collected seeds do not germinate unless passed through an elephant , in whose dung they germinate . |
| 15 | Experience tends to improve performance but has a lessening effect as the age of acquisition increases . |
| 16 | Maybe she 'll get married to Lewis but have a lifelong affair with you . ’ |
| 17 | The members of the larger group charged lower fees but had a poor knowledge of English . |
| 18 | The information function is performed through the magazine Which ? available to subscribers but having a general impact because of its availability in libraries and the extent to which it is referred to and talked about . |
| 19 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 20 | Miss Miller , who was 65 at the time of her death but had a mental age of two , died on November 7 last year from head injuries . |
| 21 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 22 | The study investigated children in care whose social workers wanted to find homes with substitute families for them , taking as two basic assumptions that every child has a right to a family of his [ or her ] own , and that adoption and fostering are not completely separate categories but have a considerable area of overlap . |