Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] but " in BNC.
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1 | If the applicant for a judicial remedy could have pursued a non-judicial remedy but has failed to do so , this may give a court a ground for refusing a judicial remedy : the law requires the ‘ exhaustion of alternative remedies ’ as it is sometimes put . |
2 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
3 | The police could have adopted a different stratagem but it would have been ‘ more time-consuming and difficult ’ than this ‘ simple procedure ’ . |
4 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
5 | Some Saharan ergs may have had a similar origin but others may have occupied basins of centripetal drainage into which sand was transported in periods of wetter climate . |
6 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
7 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
8 | ‘ I am sure the game would have finished a goal-less draw but for that incident . |
9 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
10 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |
11 | The pain would have killed a lesser being but Aenarion had passed through the fire of Asuryan and agony could not slow him . |
12 | Instead of the blue uniform , which sat well on his big frame , he was sporting a hideous shirt patterned with palm trees and his plump buttocks were compressed into a pair of fawn slacks , the cut of which would have flattered a slimmer figure but was less than kind to his own . |
13 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
14 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |