Example sentences of "but they have [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they have ruled out immediate legislation to ban the gadgets , which have flooded the market from the Far East and America . |
| 2 | They need to budget carefully , neither is a diy expert , but they have saved enough to buy a new kitchen . |
| 3 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 4 | But they have stimulated more complex understandings of gender relations in other fields , such as literary theory . |
| 5 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 6 | These proprietors retain the potential to exercise political power : indeed , they have used their ownership to chart the political direction of their newspapers , but they have stopped well short of using their newspapers to make demands of the political system in the manner of the press barons of the 1930s . |
| 7 | In terms of proportions of votes cast at elections , the Official Unionists have recently regained the advantage but they have done so by becoming more and more like the DUP . |
| 8 | But they have travelled as far afield as Belfast and Aberdeen . |
| 9 | ‘ These provincial councils were meant to act as part of central council within their own area , but they have grown more independent and now we have a situation where there is both competition and conflict between them and a reluctance to accept the authority of central council . ’ |
| 10 | The main source for the history of Jacobitism is the Stuart papers , but they have survived only in part for the period before 1715 , since the Stuart papers kept at the Scots College in Paris were almost totally destroyed by fire during the French Revolution . |
| 11 | However , two of my constituents entered the prison service with the idea of working eventually in Walton prison , but they have ended up working in London . |
| 12 | But they have said little about law 's part in the mosaic . |
| 13 | on form Crewe look the part … but they have to run out of steam sometime |
| 14 | ‘ The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre but they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland . |
| 15 | parties that take about three , four percent of the vote but they have got far more sway over the government than their vote really . |
| 16 | well the the have a training roll and it may well be that the will be able to I mean I have n't spoken for example but they have taken over the functions of the old Manpower Services Commission training agency . |
| 17 | The capitalists left elegant buildings in Baku , the communists promoted literacy and education , but they have taken more out than they have put back in . |
| 18 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 19 | Social workers , who are justifiably worried about the growth of abuse , are eager to catch hold of new ideas , but they have failed repeatedly to realise that they are not being given proof . |
| 20 | Not only have the Government disregarded the electricity supply industry 's disdain for that achievement , but they have sat idly by and watched collieries close which , in the past five years , have taken up a large part of that sum of money about which the Minister boasted just a moment ago . |
| 21 | The many tall ogival windows provide the classrooms with a great deal of light but they have proved more difficult to protect . |