Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , well , John Entwistle 's great but no-one else has provided such fluid , simple counter-melodies … ’ |
| 2 | It is so simple that anyone can do it , but everyone else has missed the key . |
| 3 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 4 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 5 | ERIC CANTONA may be the key to the title , but somebody still has to turn it — and United have found just the man . |
| 6 | But she also has to learn it . |
| 7 | But she still has to take a daily cocktail of drugs . |
| 8 | Most of her rent — £96 a month — is covered by housing benefit but she still has to pay about half of her poll tax . |
| 9 | I doubt she has the technical skill to keep me static for very long , but she certainly has acquired just enough understanding of particle physics and the footnotes to the hard-to-find tenth-century Babylonian edition of The Sword of Moses to slow me down just long enough to cramp my style . |
| 10 | The advertising vice-president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years . |
| 11 | But everything else has vanished . |
| 12 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 13 | But he probably has got it . |
| 14 | You know , very often Jim does things on the Enterprise he does n't want , want to do you know , but he just has to do them unfortunately . |
| 15 | Now the holder of speculative balances not only has to consider the yield on close substitutes such as bonds , but he also has to take into account any prospective capital gains or losses which may accrue when buying the bond . |
| 16 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics thus constrains the designer of engines ; he wants high efficiency but he also has to think about speed and price , and a whole range of possible designs might suit a particular case : the law does not require a unique solution . |
| 17 | He may be a former jockey but he still has to watch his weight ! ’ |
| 18 | But he still has to go back and work in the afternoon . |
| 19 | Well he does that on every questionnaire , but he still has got to get someone to double check it . |
| 20 | He stuck by Wallace a while , but he too has had regular spells as a sub and in the reserves too . |
| 21 | The main difficulty is that in order to record capital the organization not only has to know what assets it owns but it also has to put a value on them , even if the ‘ value ’ is their historic cost . |
| 22 | This is partly due to the rapid growth of the financial services industry which has increased the demand for actuaries , but it also has to do with expansion of the skills which actuaries have to offer . |
| 23 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 24 | But it also has to provide the means by which a modern society provides houses and gardens — which the British love — where once they huddled in two-up-two-downs and the spec-built terraces which pre-dated the loathed Sixties ‘ slums in the skies ’ . |
| 25 | The politics of the situation probably means that it has to be sensitive to the traditional concerns of the governments themselves but it also has to provide strong arguments for deviations from generally accepted accounting principles for business . |
| 26 | The spadefoot has one of the fastest rates of development of any frog or toad , but it still has to undergo the process known as metamorphosis — the egg does not hatch into an adult , but into a tadpole , which has to reach a certain critical size before it can finally metamorphose into a tiny toad . |
| 27 | So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities . |
| 28 | McEniff 's zeal for football has not subsided in later years , but it now has to compete with two other compelling passions , his family and his business . |