Example sentences of "but has [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis McNamee has resigned as secretary after three years but has accepted the post of president . |
| 2 | Method ( i ) has been criticised ( see Parker , Modern Conveyancing Precedents , Butterworths , 1964 ) but has stood the test of time ( see Kelly 's Draftsmancurrent 15th and earlier editions ) . |
| 3 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 4 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 5 | Suppose the worker finds the young boy has reached the stage of potency but has lost the capacity to ejaculate ? |
| 6 | Fisons ‘ strongly refutes ’ the suggestion that leakage tests were deceptive , but has amended the test . |
| 7 | Rosenthal has rejected a one-year deal to stay at Liverpool but has dismissed the possibility of a move to Turkish club Besiktas , who showed interest last week . |
| 8 | The former English national champion is now out of the singles competition but has reached the semi-finals of the doubles . |
| 9 | The former English national champion is now out of the singles competition but has reached the semi-finals of the doubles . |
| 10 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 11 | Like others in his position , he wants to continue farming but has to question the logic and timing of a considerable investment . |
| 12 | A French radioactive waste bill has cleared the way for research into the underground storage of nuclear waste , but has postponed the decision as to whether burial is to be considered a permanent option for another 15 years [ see ED 47 ] . |
| 13 | The subject of a bad reference can sue the referee for libel but has to show the referee was up to no good : spite , ill-will or some improper motive will do . |
| 14 | The government denies this , but has published the text of a letter from its Political Adviser to the New China News Agency ( Beijing 's embassy in Hong Kong ) suggesting that it did . |
| 15 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |