Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] but it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines . |
| 2 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | China is already a big exporter of tungsten but it has major reserves of titanium , tin , copper . |
| 4 | No large-scale tests have been made to establish the rate of risk but it has been put at 1.5% , or an average of one in 60–70 . |
| 5 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 6 | Everybody would prefer a low rate of VAT but it has is has been accepted that that is a non-starter politically . |
| 7 | And what I 'm giving is just something nice in the spirit of Christmas but it has n't broken my bank or my back . |
| 8 | Iraq has launched a rocket into space but it has never put a satellite into orbit . |
| 9 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 10 | I assumed I was suffering from dandruff but it has n't cleared up . |
| 11 | Like every other intelligence agency the NSA is very good at giving politicians what they want to hear in peacetime but it has no wartime experience at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody is against pedestrianisation in principle but it has been too harshly applied , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 15 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We always had books and diagrams on meteorology but it has been a very dead subject up until now , ’ said head of science Peter Simpson . |