Example sentences of "but it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 2 | This speech in the cockney vernacular reads almost like a foreign language , but it has a well defined construction and rhythm . |
| 3 | Thus , Irish nationalism is conceived by most members in an abstract way , but it has concrete import for key groups . |
| 4 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 5 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 6 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 7 | Tourism income in Jordan ebbs and flows with the political mood of the Middle East , but it has been hit particularly hard by the most recent turmoil . |
| 8 | The idea may not stand too much scrutiny , but it has charm . |
| 9 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 10 | But it has to be reiterated that the CTP does not explain these observations : it does not explain how the impinging events give rise to awareness of those events . |
| 11 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 12 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 13 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 14 | The Black Country Development Corporation has begun proceedings to buy the pub but it has made no public statement giving its reasons . |
| 15 | It is not the easiest language to learn , but it has structure and legibility . |
| 16 | But it has obviously been forgotten that a near-similar system was in place almost exactly a century ago — the submarine cable system , a communicative technique in which the British were supreme . |
| 17 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 18 | But it has a range of highly-regarded brand names including Mira showers , Twyford bathroom fittings and Celuform plastic timber systems . |
| 19 | This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages . |
| 20 | But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution . |
| 21 | But it has no position on pre-marital sex or on censorship . |
| 22 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
| 23 | Filipinos have not demonstrated in the streets , but it has become increasingly clear they want Ferdinand Marcos , the former Philippine president who died in exile in Hawaii last week , to be allowed home for burial . |
| 24 | But it has fought back . |
| 25 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 26 | But it has to be applied properly or it will not improve the quality of education . |
| 27 | But it has has dropped the commitment to increase NHS spending by 3 per cent a year in real terms on which it fought the 1987 general election . |
| 28 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 29 | THE deregulation of television in Italy has brought viewers more sport , more often than perhaps in any other European country but it has caused a tremendous row among the broadcasters and the political power groups who back their various causes . |
| 30 | Being trivial is not the whole answer , but it has its place . |