Example sentences of "but it have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 2 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 3 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 4 | She did n't reject it , but it had become irrelevant , its comfort only a candle which served fitfully to illumine the dark . |
| 5 | Knights too were readily identifiable , but it had become imperative to make provision also for the many untitled men whose wealth was as great or even greater . |
| 6 | He said the Government was reluctant to interfere , but it had become aware of ‘ widespread detestation in Parliament ’ of some trends in the popular press . |
| 7 | It had a house which once had a thatched roof , but it had gone derelict and a tree had started growing in the middle of it . |
| 8 | Dick had probably intended to toss it into the quarry , but it had fallen short and the weight of the handles had kept it from slipping over . |
| 9 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 10 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 11 | Memento Mori was in no sense new in the teaching of the churches , but it had acquired fresh importance in the light of the conversion experience , which was a central feature of the religious revival . |
| 12 | The thirty-two-bar form was pervasive between the wars , but it has remained important since — even in rock . |
| 13 | It is a simple point , but it has caused certain distress . |
| 14 | Frank Smith 's ( 1971 ) seminal work , Understanding Reading , has been glorified and vilified perhaps more than any other book about reading , but it has spawned real excitement and self-questioning in teachers . |
| 15 | But it has made emotional and social demands upon family life which parents and children are all-too-often ill-equipped to bear . |
| 16 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 17 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 18 | We have already seen this statement in St John Ackers ' postscript to the 1890 Education Act , but it has become popular again ( Van Uden , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | He has resisted attempts to remove him from the Maine Road board in the past , but it has become clear that Lee 's intervention provided much greater pressure on him to step aside . |
| 20 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 21 | But it has had limited success . |
| 22 | But it has proved costly and difficult to isolate receptors . |
| 23 | To the second , yes , but it 's gone mouldy . ’ |
| 24 | I said all along , once you 've got a staff of twenty odd , we 've had a lot of injuries which we have n't carped on too much , but senior players have been out with injury but it 's given young players an opportunity . |
| 25 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |
| 26 | use that but it 's got dirty now . |
| 27 | How I quite enjoyed it but it 's got deep bunkers . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's got sentimental value , as they say . |