Example sentences of "but they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 2 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 3 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 4 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 5 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
| 6 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 7 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 8 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 9 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 10 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 11 | Maybe they had n't got any clothes , and they could n't afford one of the nice rooms , and they did n't belong anywhere , but they had each other and they had Baby to visit each day . |
| 12 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 13 | With erm and they had sand , they all had sandbags along there , but they had these sort of er walls built up . |
| 14 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 15 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 16 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 17 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrats did much less well than had the Alliance in 1986 in terms of votes , but they had more success in targeting and retaining council seats . |
| 19 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 20 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 21 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 22 | There were indeed three men of £200 at Cirencester , a major centre of the West of England wool trade , but they had few peers locally ; Newbury had four big clothiers , including the son of the legendary John Winchcombe , who was worth £630 , but here too there was no concentration of wealth comparable with that of Suffolk . |
| 23 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 24 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 25 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd hoped she and Leo could be here tonight , but they had another engagement . ’ |
| 27 | They administered education in conformity with the law and the controls on grants for special places but they had considerable autonomy within those constraints . |
| 28 | The RAF 's aircraft replacement programmes tend to be more expensive than warship construction , but they have greater flexibility since the number of aircraft ordered in any one year can be varied without throwing the Air Department 's costings off balance . |
| 29 | They have no line on a target , but they have four addresses staked . |
| 30 | The large number of astronomy books published may be varied in their presentation , topics , standards of difficulty and reader orientation , but they have one thing in common : the author 's open enthusiasm for the subject and desire to put it across . |