Example sentences of "but had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act was passed in response to the situation of conflict which had developed between fascists and anti-fascists in the East End , but had a wider purpose — to exert greater social control through increased police powers and the threat to public order posed by political extremism in general . |
| 2 | As the Dragoons were still looking for him , he would not stay in the house but had a small cave dug nearby , with a gorse bush to hide the entrance . |
| 3 | Stern examined flies which were genetically wild-type , but had a small patch of achaete tissue at the site where the bristle should be , and achaete flies with a small patch of wild-type tissue at the site . |
| 4 | Amanda said she loved the live show , that Sandra was n't particularly attractive but had a great body and showed what good hair and good clothes could do , and then , in an off-hand comment that she probably regretted almost immediately , declared that if she was ever to sleep with a woman , it would be Sandra . |
| 5 | I had a real ambition to ride round Badminton , but had a terrible fall which left me with two broken legs before I could do that . |
| 6 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 7 | Miss Miller , who was 65 at the time of her death but had a mental age of two , died on November 7 last year from head injuries . |
| 8 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |
| 9 | The members of the larger group charged lower fees but had a poor knowledge of English . |
| 10 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |
| 11 | There was certainly nothing oppressed about Marjorie , who not only slept around the Midlands circuit , but had a controlling interest in his finances . |
| 12 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 13 | I 've worked hard on the ‘ proper English ’ accent and with Kenneth 's help , got rid of the Yorkshire ‘ u ’ sound — as in bus — but had a little trouble with the ‘ ay ’ sound — as in fade . |
| 14 | Ansah was carried off with concussion at Luton on Saturday , but had a precautionary brain scan and reported fit this morning . |
| 15 | Vocalisation suppression impaired rhyming judgements , but had a reduced effect upon meaning judgements and visual-similarity judgements . |
| 16 | Durkheim 's sociology as a whole , and in particular his view of the need for a new moral authority in society , not only provided general support for the political ideas of the Third Republic in France , but had a direct influence upon educational policy and the attempts to create a ‘ secular morality ’ . |
| 17 | This burnt down in 1791 but had a dramatic effect on milling in London and clearly had an influence on the Gloucester Docks scheme . |
| 18 | Marx 's particular claim was that the macro-historical laws which he had discovered were not just speculative but had a scientific status . |
| 19 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 20 | OK , that 's an isolated episode , but had a feminist film crew gone out to make a documentary about wife battering I do n't think it could have been done more successfully . |
| 21 | There were four cracked wash basins , never any soap and one roller towel , changed on Friday afternoons , by which time it was not only dirty but had a horrible smell . |
| 22 | The bill made it easier for victims of unintentional discrimination — those affected by employment practices which were superficially neutral but had a disproportionate impact on minorities — to win job discrimination lawsuits against their employers . |