Example sentences of "but has [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 The exterior still shows the original form well but has lost all decoration .
4 Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment .
5 Boyden followed Spencer Stuart in 1965–6 but has suffered varying business fortunes since then .
6 This has always been a feature of political life , but has assumed new prominence since 1979 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 Hogarth also makes a miniature , three-tier ‘ recession beater ’ , but has had little interest so far .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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