Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester .
2 I thought I would have plenty of other opportunities but nothing could have been further from the truth .
3 He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly .
4 They have both been playing so well for us in recent weeks but we will have to reorganise and cope without them . ’
5 Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process .
6 So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package .
7 The later seats will fit if you use the later mounts but you will have to modify the seatbelt mounts as they are fitted in the pillar of later vehicles .
8 Assistant head of the hotel school , John Staples , adds : ‘ They wo n't be experts but they 'll have a good understanding of what it 's all about .
9 ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen .
10 Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves …
11 One can easily argue against its privatisation in emotive terms but it would have been more helpful if both your correspondents had taken the point that the UK economy is not exactly in robust good health .
12 You may not be able to reconcile differences but you will have gained further insights into the perceptions that others have of the school and maintained the personal caring touch ; and the discussion may well encourage you to take another look at your policy for encouraging complaints .
13 ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’
14 Rex may be the ideal idol to many men but you will have to settle with playing his character in the game .
15 They 're trying to get somewhere now with the police but it could have happened anywhere !
16 He might not wish to reveal names to the police but he would have to .
17 In some cases , with your manager 's prior permission , you may make long distance calls or calls to directory enquiries but you will have to pay for these .
18 Of course it was one of their earliest records but I should have realised that they were different .
19 Wales had all those great backs but they could have done nothing without their forwards .
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