Example sentences of "but had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 2 | He took only two wickets in the first Test after leapfrogging Essex man Mark Ilott when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured , but had two catches dropped by Graeme Hick , including Mark Taylor early in his match-winning innings . |
| 3 | At first , they were not married but had two sons . |
| 4 | By coming into a room that I thought was empty — which was n't empty , but had two people in it … |
| 5 | They were no bigger than leaf monkeys , but had black caps and a line of black fur about the eyes , giving them an oddly human look . |
| 6 | Jane Webber , a sixty-six-year-old spinster , was the keeper of another house ; she earned a shilling a week but had eight lodgers . |
| 7 | Wasps , defending the only unblemished record in Division One , lacked their usual buzz , but had former England international Huw Davies 's try to thank for a 10–6 win over spirited London Scottish . |
| 8 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 9 | She wore no make-up but had classic features , a straight nose , full lips and fine eyes . |
| 10 | Doctors like Meryl Armitage , who was n't even particularly intellectually gifted , but had pleasant manners , a pair of compelling green eyes — and youth . |
| 11 | I wanted to reply to your star letter about the lady who wanted to work but had small children and found it difficult . |
| 12 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 13 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 14 | Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it . |
| 15 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |
| 16 | A Tokyo conference in November 1943 of leaders from nominally independent Southeast Asian countries was supposed to strengthen solidarity and cooperation , but had little impact either in Japan or in Southeast Asia itself . |
| 17 | An accomplished pianist , she also had great histrionic gifts , but had little time to pursue these interests in later years . |
| 18 | Britain 's first application was tabled in august , just after the Kuwait crisis , but had little effect on Defence policy at the time , because negotiations were relatively short-lived . |
| 19 | The Presbyterians drifted into Unitarianism whose rational approach attracted the ministers and the merchants but had little appeal to the poor ; there was no ‘ enthusiasm ’ about it . |
| 20 | She never remarried but had many admirers and friends , including William Heinemann and John Masefield [ qq.v . ] . |
| 21 | The primary tumour had allele losses on chromosome 5 shown by Lambda MS8 and chromosome 17 shown by p144-D6 , while the second tumour did not have allele loss on chromosome 5 , but had additional allele losses on chromosomes 12 and 17 and rearrangement on chromosome 1 . |
| 22 | They did n't stare at them but had good eye contact . |
| 23 | Alex and Judy were self funded but had some sponsorship from FWWG and John Wood Group PLC , again going towards the Sick Children 's Hospital . |
| 24 | But had some student recited Quexos 's first Law of Drama to him this cold November night he would have nodded grimly , and said : all true , all true . |
| 25 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 26 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 27 | Equally , regulatory change transformed financial services , but had lesser impact on chemicals . |
| 28 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 29 | Most performed in the high average to superior range on measures of verbal learning but had severe deficits in tasks associated with the non-dominant hemisphere . |
| 30 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |