Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hundreds of others had tried to design metal skis but had failed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Barbara expected to pay something towards her court costs but had estimated £200 at the very most . |
| 10 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His party argued the Tories had set up a Economic Development Forum but had not put enough money in . |
| 13 | The factories had previously been ordered to install pollution control equipment but had failed to respond . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | William had regularly attended the local parish Church but had not shown any particular religious interest . |
| 16 | Then long-term account holders were told that when they reached sixty they could no longer use BR 's own rail warrants but had to switch to credit cards on which a commission is payable . |
| 17 | Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year . |
| 18 | The county asked to borrow almost £46m for capital projects but had only been allowed to spend £11.64m on school buildings — a cut back of almost 50 per cent on last year 's spending . |
| 19 | Each set had identical swing weights but had shafts of different flexibility . |
| 20 | Marjorie named her Lizzie ( she 'd always intended to call a daughter Lizzie but had produced only sons ! ) and the two forged a strong bond . |
| 21 | Within the ranks of the nobility , the king 's youngest sons in particular benefited from the fall of the courtiers : Edmund Langley was appointed Constable of Dover Castle , an office previously held by Latimer , while Woodstock was granted the office of Constable of England , which was hereditary in the Bohun family but had been delegated when necessary to other lords after the death of the last Earl of Hereford , Woodstock 's father-in-law . |
| 22 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 23 | It acted as a pressure group but had less influence that its Estonian counterpart — see below . ) |
| 24 | In Lotus Development Corp. v Paperback Software International ( 1990 ) , the defendant claimed that he had not copied the Lotus program code but had used a similar menu system to achieve compatibility ( especially with respect to spreadsheet files and macros ) and to enable people to change to VP-Planner from Lotus 1-2-3 without requiring re-training . |
| 25 | Seven-week-old Patrick was not seriously ill when he was admitted to the hospital with an ear infection but had to be taken to Nottingham as an emergency patient . |
| 26 | The RPC had been successful in getting its policy adopted by the ILP Conference but had become too closely associated with the Communists to receive continued support from the ILP . |
| 27 | She is a steady inland and sea paddler but had never been in a sea kayak . |
| 28 | What can you say about a club which apparently could not afford to stay in hotel accommodation but had no problem finding 5,000 dollars to slip into a referee 's back pocket ? |
| 29 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian newspaper and a member of the watchdog Press Complaints Commission , said he believed The Sun had not broken the speech embargo but had simply published a story ahead of time . |
| 30 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |