Example sentences of "but has [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taiwan banned rhino horn imports in 1985 but has given traditional medicine shops until 1994 to sell existing stocks [ see ED 65 ] . |
| 2 | The hotel has no private parking space but has arranged concessionary access to a municipal multi-storey car park nearby off Southgate Street . |
| 3 | A spokesman for Vietnam Airlines said : ‘ She is in good condition , but has lost two teeth . ’ |
| 4 | The exterior still shows the original form well but has lost all decoration . |
| 5 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 6 | Boyden followed Spencer Stuart in 1965–6 but has suffered varying business fortunes since then . |
| 7 | This has always been a feature of political life , but has assumed new prominence since 1979 . |
| 8 | Significant compression has only developed comparatively recently ( the Alpine Fault was transtensile until the Pliocene ) but has generated rapid uplift with the highest peaks in the Southern Alps now exceeding an altitude of 3000 m . |
| 9 | The application of infrared to stereostructure determination in polymers is less reliable than n.m.r. , but has achieved moderate success for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) and polypropylene . |
| 10 | The Perth professional , whose father engraves the winner 's name on the Open Championship Trophy , earned the 37th card on his 11th visit to the PGA School in November but has missed two cuts and finished 66th on his three previous Tour outings this year . |
| 11 | Just as the notion of civil rights has not been fixed in its eighteenth-century formulation but has undergone continuing expansion , so too with the rights that go with academic freedom . |
| 12 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 13 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |
| 14 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |
| 15 | Instinet is still small in London , but has had reasonable success in its five years in the US and , says Cavill , ‘ once you get the ball rolling this is the only game in town . ’ |
| 16 | Hogarth also makes a miniature , three-tier ‘ recession beater ’ , but has had little interest so far . |
| 17 | The rise of the welfare state has brought much earlier retirement from work , but has had little impact on the low incomes typical of later life both past and present . |
| 18 | The boat has its original engine and mahogany hull but has had new decks and covering boards . |
| 19 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 20 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 21 | And The Spastics Scoiety says Peto is n't a miracle cure , but has helped many people . |
| 22 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 23 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 24 | The Swedish government has reaffirmed a pledge to phase out nuclear power by the year 2010 , but has reversed earlier undertakings to begin shutting down its 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |