Example sentences of "but has [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area feels firm but has irregular nodules which can be painful to touch . |
| 2 | The Riesling Clos Häuserer 1988 ( £7.25 ) is tight and steely on the nose but has great fruit purity and excellent acidity on the palate — needs time but will be superb . |
| 3 | This method has nothing in common with the pivotal method , but has great advantages in certain circumstances . |
| 4 | Generally silent , but has various barking or crow-like calls . |
| 5 | Viridian has a place on many palettes ; it is slightly less brash than phthalocyanine green , but has similar transparency and hue . |
| 6 | In contrast with patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis , and to HIV-infected patients in general , increasing age was protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; this paradoxical effect is unexplained but has wide confidence limits and a type I error ( of small numbers ) can not be absolutely excluded . |
| 7 | This is by far the commonest cavity for lasers in general , but has major drawbacks from a theoretical standpoint : the standing-wave pattern greatly complicates the atomic response and can also lead to multimode operation , and time and space are much more intimately mixed in the feedback process . |
| 8 | However , bullish and bearish money spreads can be combined to create a potential profit in a situation where the share price is not expected to move and in a situation where the price is expected to move but has equal probabilities of rising and falling . |
| 9 | The DVR Company currently leases the Buckfastleigh line to the South Devon Railway Trust at a peppercorn rent , but has overall control of the revenues from the cafe and bookshop as well as rents from the Butterfly Centre and Otter Sanctuary previously developed by them . |
| 10 | Article 18 of the Vienna Convention draws a distinction between a third party stranger to a treaty and one which is a non-party , but has minimum obligations . |
| 11 | She is chocolate-brown but has fair-coloured highlights ( the poodle was champagne-colour ) , and you 'll also see she has a white beard and a tiny dab of white on one of her back paws . |
| 12 | He earns in the region of £33,000 a year , but has substantial outgoings . |
| 13 | This frees journalists from some restraints when they write for foreign publications but has awkward consequences for those who distribute foreign papers in this country . |
| 14 | This is formally independent of the Labour Party , but has close links with its leaders . |
| 15 | He can buy a large tube of Autumnola , the 2-in-1 action cream which not only reduces the risk of bruising to a minimum , but has anti-toxic qualities proof against the most virulent poisoning from autumnal pests . ’ |
| 16 | Therefore , since the cost reduction has the same effect as the price reduction but has other effects in addition , it is more worthwhile to strive after , if it is equally easy to obtain . " |
| 17 | This type of analysis is helpful to agency creative people , but has practical limitations . |
| 18 | Smaller and shorter-tailed than Woodpigeon , with no white patches , but has black wing-tips and two short black bars on wing . |
| 19 | He is young , tall , well-built but has big ears like Ian 's . |
| 20 | But it is possible to get the best of both worlds with a garment which is mostly dark , but has bright patches incorporated at strategic points . |
| 21 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 22 | C. rubripinnis is a modest-sized fish , but has intense colouring from red to royal-gold throughout the length of a typical specimen , although variations do occur . |
| 23 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 24 | The State Education Commission does have records of those sent abroad by the state and those who return , but has incomplete data on self-financing or sifei students . |
| 25 | Duck is like heavy-billed duck Mallard ( p.53 ) , but has green speculum and in flight at once separated by blue forewing . |
| 26 | This sub-species is fairly slow-growing , but has attractive foliage . |
| 27 | Now , after countless operations , she is able to walk again , but has bad balance and often falls , especially if she tries to run . |