Example sentences of "but it have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shot in the dark but it had struck a target . |
| 2 | Not one drop of paint hit the wall he was supposed to be painting , but it had done a marvellous job of covering the path and half a garage door . |
| 3 | Labour may not have been able to maintain control of the municipal sphere for a prolonged period , but it had built a strong tradition of formal political activity which was to form the basis of hegemonic power in the interwar years . |
| 4 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 5 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
| 6 | The torrent of weeping afterwards left her feeling as weak as any new-born , but it had had a cleansing and calming effect . |
| 7 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 8 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 9 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 10 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 11 | Stability had not provided an increase in the number of occupational pensioners , but it had provided a secure environment for the lucky half of the nation who were covered . |
| 12 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 13 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 14 | The whole controversy was surely settled by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria ( 1817 ) , but it has remained a hardy perennial in critical studies of Wordsworth . |
| 15 | The role of the Pope is not discussed by Freud , but it has played a key role in the Roman Catholic and Protestant hostilities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But it has become a big thing now , has n't it ? ’ he added with evident bewilderment . |
| 19 | It is no more than the action of clashing their teeth together as if sinking them into the neck of the prey , in the specialized killing bite of the cat , but it has become a sound signal that many observers have commented on . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 21 | The First Wives Club was intended to be ‘ tongue-in-chic ’ , but it has struck a nerve . |
| 22 | Not to say DEC is going whole hog for Microsoft , but it has cut a master license agreement to give Microsoft University courses and sell video products at its 145 training centres around the world . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 25 | But it has to have a record button ? |
| 26 | On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's got a posh name , I ca n't remember what it 's called now , but it has got a posh name too . |
| 29 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 30 | It 's pretty grimy but it 's had a lot of attention . |