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 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 5 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They administered education in conformity with the law and the controls on grants for special places but they had considerable autonomy within those constraints . |
| 10 | Two semi-regular variables , U and VZ , can be located with binoculars and are orange in colour , but they have small ranges . |
| 11 | But they have strong incentives to try . |
| 12 | Surveys of this kind can provide the basis for many generalisations about geographical variation , but they have serious weaknesses , which will be discussed later . |
| 13 | Some of these ‘ field experiments ’ may be a satisfactory response to the criticisms levelled at laboratory experiments , but they have other problems of their own . |
| 14 | Ultimately , the people of Cardiff must decide , but they have good representatives in the House who are capable of making the right decision . |
| 15 | The combination of methods utilized by smaller authorities may have to be different from those employed by larger authorities , but they have similar training objectives , and many similar needs , which should be recognized as such . |
| 16 | But they have different ways of retrieving the information coded in their DNA and translating it into synthesis of cell material . |
| 17 | Thus , many deep-sea fish have puny bodies ( presumably an adaptation to the meagre food supply ) but they have huge heads , jaws , and teeth , as their prey — when it arrives — tends also to be large . |
| 18 | Daddy sits a lot , doing nothing and muttering to himself and Mummy 's just retreated — she never starts a conversation , or asks a question , or — You 'd think they 'd be over-anxious about me , their one remaining child and perhaps they are , but they have miserable ways of showing it . |
| 19 | In the telescope they look like very faint stars , but they have enormous redshifts , indicating that they are retreating from us extremely swiftly and are thus distant — the most distant objects of which we know . |
| 20 | They do n't have hooks and crooks here but they have fucking wife beaters . |
| 21 | Touche Ross 's position is also in the balance , but they have sufficient talent to decide their own destiny . |
| 22 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 23 | These records were given conventional catalogue numbers and were sold at normal prices , but they have special label designs . |
| 24 | These statistics can easily seem impenetrable and tedious , but they have important light to throw if we can tease out their implications . |
| 25 | ‘ These dogs are not as strong as the pit bull terrier but they have immense strength all the same . |