Example sentences of "but [adv] have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But much had to be dealt with around the mouth and collarbone ration , and his 50th innings as captain , in his 88th Test , closed with an awkward , hurried jab to short leg off the chest .
2 But much had to be done before any real progress could be made , and essentially this lay in the problem of land acquisition and assembly .
3 This can have some side-effects , such as nausea and vomiting , but only has to be taken for about a week .
4 Italy , for example , has avoided a military coup since 1945 but still has on average a new government every year .
5 but still have to four phone in for the same purpose , are you with me ?
6 Further council documents show that the appropriate department and the council itself had in mind the ‘ effect of traffic attraction to the site upon the environment in the approach roads , ’ but also had in mind ‘ the employment potential of the use proposed in the planning application . ’
7 The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture .
8 The steroid dose was soon halved , but immediately had to be increased again .
9 The baton of innovation , in this view , may not have been altogether dropped , but sometimes has to be carried by another team before the British outfit can continue its own rather erratic course down the tracks of literary history .
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