Example sentences of "[noun sg] but had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore no make-up but had classic features , a straight nose , full lips and fine eyes . |
| 2 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 3 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 4 | Jane Webber , a sixty-six-year-old spinster , was the keeper of another house ; she earned a shilling a week but had eight lodgers . |
| 5 | Most performed in the high average to superior range on measures of verbal learning but had severe deficits in tasks associated with the non-dominant hemisphere . |
| 6 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |