Example sentences of "but have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Other small birds like the house sparrow can follow a similar format but have squarer crowns to the head .
2 The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious .
3 Some corporations entrust their routine legal work to outside solicitors , but have legal advisers whose task is to give advice at high level within the industry ; these advisers organise the legal work which is to be executed by the outside solicitors — perhaps in many countries .
4 The problem is compounded where the codes in contact themselves are not only similar but have diffuse norms , so that the boundary between them is not always clear either to the linguist or to community members .
5 Three groups of plants appeared that possessed such structures and all three have descendants that have survived without much change — clubmosses which resemble mosses but have stiffer stems ; horsetails which grow in waste patches and ditches and have stems encircled at intervals with rings of needle-like leaves ; and ferns .
6 These have been used in the treatment of Kaposi 's Sarcoma , but have serious side-effects .
7 If you are unable to get to this day , but have some thoughts on this matter please contact ( N.D.O. ) on , or myself , before the 23rd .
8 Within the European Community , member countries ( other than the UK ) are part of the European Monetary System , which is an arrangement whereby these countries fix their exchange rates against each other but have flexible rates against non-member countries .
9 Many depressed people just withdraw into themselves , they may sleep a lot in the day but have wakeful nights .
10 They no longer rely on outside air to fill the bladder , but have special glands for manufacturing gas .
11 The National Trust for Scotland ( annual membership £22 ) and the National Trust ( Pounds 23 ) are separate bodies but have reciprocal arrangements .
12 Panorama ( BBC-1 , Monday , 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for thousands of single mothers like these , who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ?
13 PANORAMA ( BBC1 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for the thousands of single mothers who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ?
14 The reasons , I would argue , are not just due to any innate biological features of females , but have social causes just as the ‘ craze ’ itself .
15 Thus , an uncompetitive market structure may be maintained indefinitely because of barriers to entry and exit ; products are not , as in the model , homogeneous , but have differentiating characteristics which enable producers to raise prices without causing a total shift in demand to their rivals ; and finally , purchasers lack perfect information and hence may pay higher prices than they would if aware of alternative , cheaper , sources of supply .
16 If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings .
17 Because China is a vast country with many dialects , certain kung fu schools practise styles that are the same but have different names .
18 These figures make IBM a natural target for Japan 's electronics firms , which are relative newcomers to computers but have high aspirations of success .
19 A single fallen leaf can smother a wide area of seedlings and it is perhaps no surprise then to learn that it has such a large seed , which could not only penetrate this mass but have enough stores to supply a seedling as it grew up through it .
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