Example sentences of "but it has [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 2 | The whole controversy was surely settled by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) , but it has remained a hardy perennial in critical studies of Wordsworth . |
| 3 | The role of the Pope is not discussed by Freud , but it has played a key role in the Roman Catholic and Protestant hostilities . |
| 4 | THE deregulation of television in Italy has brought viewers more sport , more often than perhaps in any other European country but it has caused a tremendous row among the broadcasters and the political power groups who back their various causes . |
| 5 | More can be done and more is being done and we shall encourage the industry to go out and get more business wherever it is ; but it has made a good start . |
| 6 | ‘ But it has become a big thing now , has n't it ? ’ he added with evident bewilderment . |
| 7 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 8 | Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it |
| 9 | On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power . |
| 10 | The flaws in some of the ideas put forward by the Board have been cogently exposed , but it has shown a welcome willingness to take account of criticisms and alter its position accordingly . |
| 11 | It 's got a posh name , I ca n't remember what it 's called now , but it has got a posh name too . |