Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] but had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The west German state airline Lufthansa had reportedly presented various purchase plans but had faced opposition from the Federal Cartel Office . |
| 2 | Again , CR-1409 largely abolished the growth stimulation produced by bowel resection but had no consistent effect within the control groups . |
| 3 | Scoobie had found his way onto the Mull ferry but had not enjoyed the trip and was mightily relieved to be found by his owner . |
| 4 | During the run up to the 1911 strike Wilson had been advised by his doctors to take three months rest but had been determined to " remain on the bridge and direct the fight " . |
| 5 | She had been unable to visit Kathleen O'Neill but had heard that she was still in hospital and receiving treatment for the wound on her head . |
| 6 | It was truly democratic ; she not only named six Head Girls , Mr Smith and Miss Doris but had not forgotten the loyalty of William . |
| 7 | All the difficulties with ‘ wet white ’ were eliminated in Birmingham where there was an obscure ruling that bare legs were banned ( this remained in force as late as the 1950s ) , so when playing there they were given cotton tights but had to put a penny at the side , wrap a piece of string round it and the tights in order to hold them up . |
| 8 | A Commando was therefore not unlike an infantry battalion but had only five small rifle or fighting Troops by comparison with the battalion 's four companies , each with over 120 all ranks . |
| 9 | They had planned to fly out to South Africa but had a long wait for visas . |
| 10 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 11 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 12 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 13 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 14 | This company had purchased two new middle-water vessels , the Ben Loyal and Ben Roy but had been unable to make them pay and was obliged to sell them in May 1980 . |
| 15 | She was knitting to cars as one single motif on her Silver Reed but had put the point cams on incorrectly and had one car in the middle and two half cars either side . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First owned by Anne Duchess of Westminster , Foinavon — named after Scottish mountains in the manner of Ben Stack and Arkle — had won three chases for Tom Dreaper but had a tendency to fall and the Duchess decided to sell him . |
| 18 | He said he was from the Harrow Road Station but had only recently been transferred there from West End Central . |
| 19 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 20 | All three had been convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murder of the Belau President , Haruo Remeliik but had been freed on appeal [ see pp. 33995-96 ; 35003 ; 35648 ] . |
| 21 | Hundreds of others had tried to design metal skis but had failed . |
| 22 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 23 | Barbara expected to pay something towards her court costs but had estimated £200 at the very most . |
| 24 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 25 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 26 | His party argued the Tories had set up a Economic Development Forum but had not put enough money in . |
| 27 | Mr Grant said Cornthwaite remembered lunging at Sharon Birss but had no recollection of punching Beverley Birss . |
| 28 | He remembered lunging at Sharon Birss but had no recollection of punching Beverley Birss . |
| 29 | The factories had previously been ordered to install pollution control equipment but had failed to respond . |
| 30 | Other than for Tutorial Classes , the WEA as a Responsible Body had not only traditionally provided the organisation for student demand but had also appointed its own tutors and approved syllabuses for courses within its Chapter III provision . |