Example sentences of "but have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms have not boosted their exports as they could have done but have simply increased their profit margins on existing sales . ’ |
| 2 | Socrates is a teacher , but his function as he himself describes it is to uncover in the minds of those he teaches what they really know already , but have simply failed to recognise or make explicit . |
| 3 | David , Grant and Stuart are due to complete their studies towards the end of 1995 but have already cleared the first hurdle . |
| 4 | Essex feel geographically rather remote from the Crystal Palace but have kindly offered to organise the 1982 event . |
| 5 | One important difference between them is that judges are not only legally trained but have invariably spent most of their working lives as practising barristers . |
| 6 | Debates about sexism have included feminist critiques of sexual objectification and sexual stereotyping , but have largely excluded investigation of how women whose appearance contravenes cultural ‘ norms ’ are negated and abused . |
| 7 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 8 | Where the parties have not only required a step to be taken within a specified time but have expressly provided for the consequences in case of default , this provides an indication , of greater or less strength , that time is to be of the essence , but it is not necessarily decisive . |
| 9 | The couple , who have a ten-month-old baby , own their own flat in a tenement block off Edinburgh 's Leith Walk but have just bought a new flat and will be moving soon . |
| 10 | I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals . |
| 11 | The alarmed Hungarians initially kept this threat to themselves , but have since raised the issue in private both within the Warsaw Pact and with certain Western governments . |
| 12 | The record-keeping and office procedures implications of the Modular Course when it started in 1973 with an intake of 75 students were modest but have since grown with the Course . |
| 13 | Of the six patients with poor or absent gall bladder emptying ( non-function ) two had patient cystic ducts after treatment of perforated empyemas but have since developed contracted , thick walled gall bladders . |
| 14 | Indeed , some of their officials expressed strong opinions on the subject at the time but have since decided to wait and , as one put it , ‘ let the team do the talking on the park in Newry . ’ |
| 15 | New Stewards came in early 1983 but have since moved on and Tony and Cheryl Wright started in December 1985 . |
| 16 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 17 | Since 1948 numbers at Leasam reached a peak of 63 nests in 1950 , declined to an all-time low of five in 1963 , but have since recovered steadily ; the 1970 figure was 30 , and there were 23 or more in 1975 . |
| 18 | What 's worse , they all got the boot but have since proved they can do the business at the highest level . |
| 19 | Expressed as crude annual rates per thousand , they fell from 23 in 1861–65 to 12 in 1931–35 , but have since shown no further improvement due to the ageing of the population , and still stood at 11.4 in 1988 . |
| 20 | Or he could follow the Germans , who have duly provided him with an excuse for higher base rates at next week 's party conference — but have also made it abundantly clear that the Bundesbank is the dominant monetary authority in Europe , and our much-vaunted independence is so much poppy-cock . |
| 21 | A result of our own R&D , these have not only enabled us to increase margins but have also raised our market share in Europe and the USA . |
| 22 | The changes in the balance of power enacted by the 1988 Education Act have greatly increased parents ' influence on schools , but have also increased opportunities for the teaching profession to explain and persuade . |
| 23 | Such concerns are most apparent in the case of financial institutions but have also arisen in other contexts . |
| 24 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 25 | The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles . |
| 26 | Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket . |
| 27 | I not only feel it to be the most relevant magazine to the industry I work in — the consumer finance sector — but have also found the appointments section excellent , especially as I secured new employment through it after being made redundant . |
| 28 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 29 | Governments seem not to have attempted to stimulate new ideas to guide the country to solutions , but have merely implemented outdated principles , the broad bases of which were devised 50 or 100 years ago , varying slightly with political emphasis as to where the Inland Revenue collections should fall . |
| 30 | Perhaps , among the 75 per cent who may have heard of the CAB but have never sought assistance , there are many who would come to a bureau if they could . |