Example sentences of "but it had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 2 | Nobody took any notice of a dead dog , but it had a timing device that blew a charge against the gate . |
| 3 | So far as he was concerned , a great danger had been averted , and the matter was now closed , but it had a sequel which we may now follow . |
| 4 | But it had a hole in it and he was recognised by the staff . |
| 5 | But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ . |
| 6 | Rose Cottage did not have a garage , but it had a parking space formed by sacrificing most of the front garden . |
| 7 | The defendant in the Protector Alarms case was a Scottish company but it had a place of business in England at which service could be effected . |
| 8 | After some hours a train came in and fortunately we found a carriage , packed with refugees of course , but it had a lavatory at the end of the corridor . |
| 9 | We 've got one of those at school but it had a bus on it . |
| 10 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 11 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 12 | Lavoisier 's chemistry had a new language , but it had no system of symbols like the Arabic numerals . |
| 13 | The stage was wide but it had no depth . |
| 14 | Yeah , I I wrote the thing as you remember about eighteen months ago , but it had no conflict in it you know we 're all the same and stories must have conflict , so I got the house to burst the ceiling on the wife |
| 15 | Libya was still a Kingdom in those days but it had no aviation legislation , so the entire investigation was conducted in accordance with Annex 13 , though with considerable emphasis on the British interpretation of it . |
| 16 | But it had no relevance , and its guardians remained mute ten years ago , when bombs , with the United States ' and allied governments ' blessing , fell like rain on women and children in Cambodia ( Shawcross 1979 ) , or when the same governments aid and support other political/military regimes exercising mass terror and partial genocide against a subjugated people ( Chomsky and Herman 1979a , 1979b ) . |
| 17 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 18 | Jim loved his watch , but it had no chain . |
| 19 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 20 | Bernheim tried it , but it had no effect . |
| 21 | Sigsworth was given a drug which would normally induce prolonged unconsciousness but it had no effect on him . |
| 22 | But it had no place in his life and her heart cried out in anguish . |
| 23 | Once or twice she looked into her sister 's book , but it had no pictures or conversations in it . |
| 24 | ’ Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do ; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading , but it had no pictures or conversations in it' and what is the use of a book' thought Alice , 'without pictures or conversation ? ' . ’ |
| 25 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 26 | But it had no room for rugby 's World Cup . |
| 27 | We were playing a silly game , which had not a tragic outcome — it had , thanks to the mercy of providence , a fortunate outcome — but it had an outcome which is not one which ah statecraft should either aim at or be proud of having achieved . |
| 28 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 29 | Derain 's Baigneuses is in many ways closer in spirit to the Demoiselles , and it was regarded by Vauxcelles at least , as a revolutionary work , but it had the advantage that it could still be fitted into a traditional frame of reference . |
| 30 | He wore a sword , but it had the light , ceremonious quality of a court decoration rather than a weapon for use in earnest . |