Example sentences of "but have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 2 | Yet hospitals are the homes of thousands of people in this country who do not require constant medical supervision but have simply no other place they can go . |
| 3 | In some cases , good hazard data exist but have simply not yet found their way into a GIS . |
| 4 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 5 | Firms have not boosted their exports as they could have done but have simply increased their profit margins on existing sales . ’ |
| 6 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 7 | Toddlers have strong wills but have yet to learn self-control . |
| 8 | Suitable source rocks , the remaining essential ingredient for a petroleum prospect , are expected but have yet to be proved . |
| 9 | Some organisations have company housing which may be used by employees who are transferred to the new area but have yet to complete their house purchases there . |
| 10 | Pyramid OEMs including Ing Olivetti & Co SpA , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG and ICL Plc all have rights to rebadge the technology but have yet to go public , firm says . |
| 11 | Some establishments may have applied for commendation but have yet to be assessed . |
| 12 | The Forestry Commission at the Royal Showground are very interested in this extra income but have yet to ascertain the extra benefits of limited disease control and the natural organic fertiliser spread evenly over the woodland . |
| 13 | Friends of the Earth have been researching the position across England and Wales , but have yet to publish the results . |
| 14 | They have been in the squad several times before but have yet to get on the pitch , even for a couple of minutes . |
| 15 | If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method . |
| 16 | David , Grant and Stuart are due to complete their studies towards the end of 1995 but have already cleared the first hurdle . |
| 17 | Essex feel geographically rather remote from the Crystal Palace but have kindly offered to organise the 1982 event . |
| 18 | The entries in the lexicon do not actually contain semantic information , but have instead pointers to locations in a separate store known as semantic memory in which the meanings are held . |
| 19 | One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers . |
| 20 | Debates about sexism have included feminist critiques of sexual objectification and sexual stereotyping , but have largely excluded investigation of how women whose appearance contravenes cultural ‘ norms ’ are negated and abused . |
| 21 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 22 | Two- and three-year-old fish are too large most birds , but have traditionally been an important part of the diet of the Shetland people . |
| 23 | Official figures do not usually include animals that escape or are released from the nets but have nevertheless been mortally wounded . |
| 24 | Red-heads dive constantly like grebes , but have conspicuously whiter cheeks , and are also much whiter than other small diving ducks . |
| 25 | Anorthosites occur on Earth and Moon , but have rarely been seen in meteorites . |
| 26 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 27 | Where the parties have not only required a step to be taken within a specified time but have expressly provided for the consequences in case of default , this provides an indication , of greater or less strength , that time is to be of the essence , but it is not necessarily decisive . |
| 28 | Third , you could plump for the isolation tank , but have just enough water for the fish to swim in , and raise the temperature to 5 or 6°s ; above the normal show tank or pond . |
| 29 | If Reynolds finds the atmosphere of these gigs so offensive , he should simply stay away from them , rather than inflict his Points Of View mentality on the thousands of people who may not pass his muster , but have just as much right to see live music as anyone . |
| 30 | If Reynolds finds the atmosphere of these gigs so offensive , he should simply stay away from them , rather than inflict his Points Of View mentality on the thousands of people who may not pass his muster , but have just as much right to see live music as anyone . |