Example sentences of "[noun sg] but had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tobiah was a Jew by religion but had his own temple on his own land — and nobody seems to have questioned his orthodoxy . |
| 2 | Ivan the Terrible had not only decimated their ranks during the oprichnina but had eroded the distinction between their hereditary property ( votchina ) and the conditional terms of the pomestie by establishing a norm of military service to be borne by all estates . |
| 3 | FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring . |
| 4 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 5 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 6 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 7 | Albert was the first to know the Mr Gregory had lost his seat but had to restrain himself from swinging from the Assembly Rooms chandeliers in celebration . |
| 8 | She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed . |
| 9 | He told them he had bought the car but had left the Manwarings in good health . |
| 10 | He gave no reply but had n't believed her . |
| 11 | Lastly , Medeva had to secure a stream of new products which , as a small company , it could not do through research but had to do by acquisition and development . |
| 12 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 13 | The accent was good enough to fool Canadian-born Bernard Braden , who had appeared in The War Lover but had not met Crawford during the filming , into thinking he really was American . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ the fellow scratched his head , ‘ from what I gather , they had been rolled into the marsh but had n't sunk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Chelmsford coroner Malcolm Weir was told American police were still investigating the crime but had not made any arrests . |
| 17 | Richard Boyle , first Earl of Cork [ q.v. ] , noted ( 23 October 1628 ) that his ‘ Cozen Evesham ’ had started work on a monument but had pawned the carved stones . |
| 18 | St Dunstan 's emerged from the play-offs to challenge the King 's School in the final contest but had to be satisfied with the runners-up spot . |
| 19 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 20 | Charles had been wounded in the fighting but had recovered and signed on as a regular at the end of the war . |
| 21 | This was formerly standard practice but had lapsed in recent years . |
| 22 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 23 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 24 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 25 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 26 | He added that during the repair process Mr Hall had been told he could exchange the Rolls for another vehicle but had refused . |
| 27 | It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " . |
| 28 | By the end of dinner that night the poor thing was slumped against the bar but had provided excellent service to the merry throng of diners . |
| 29 | She had indeed once worked for a silversmith but had discovered that it was much easier to buy beads and acquire old pieces of jewellery , rearrange them artistically and sell them on market stalls throughout the country . |
| 30 | Rest of time must have gone on fruitless speculations as to why Coventry end without similar paperwork , could it be in post room , could it be mistake of Coventry end 's secretary , did Coventry end actually have it on desk but had n't looked ? |