Example sentences of "but [indef pn] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various schemes had been tried on Easter Monday to raise money — chrysanthemum shows and egg and spoon races included — but nothing had really developed . |
| 2 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 3 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 4 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 5 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 6 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 7 | ‘ But no-one has ever tried , ’ argued Mould . |
| 8 | But everyone 's always been frightened of Fincara . |
| 9 | Up to now he had been constantly aware of its dark presence , encircling the village , but nobody had ever suggested that he should enter it . |
| 10 | She was not likely to meet any young man , she considered , but nobody had ever tutored her before on how to attract one . |
| 11 | Another regular said : ‘ Everyone knew about the twins — but nobody had ever seen them . |
| 12 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 13 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 14 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 15 | But nobody has ever been able to decide which . |
| 16 | A quark supposedly has one third charge or two thirds charge , but nobody has ever managed to actually produced a free quark , but people do believe they exist because they explain almost all the properties that neutrons and protons have , and other particles . |
| 17 | Fogg ( 1977 ) and others have suggested that other key elements or nutrients may be used up , but none has yet been identified as limiting . |
| 18 | It 's understood several offers have been made for the remainder of the lease but none has so far been accepted . |
| 19 | But none has quite such universal potency as our consumption of animals ' flesh . |
| 20 | But one had already suffocated in the plastic bag by the time they were found by a passer by . |