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No	Pattern	Freq
1	but it was [adj]	1051
2	but it [was/were] [adj]	792
3	but it [was/were] [det]	141
4	but it [was/were] [num]	68
5	but it [was/were] all	50
6	but it [was/were] all	50
7	but it [was/were] good	48
8	but it [was/were] [adj -er]	48
9	but it [was/were] impossible	47
10	but it [was/were] impossible	47
11	but it [was/were] difficult	46
12	but it [was/were] difficult	46
13	but it [was/were] clear	38
14	but it [was/were] clear	38
15	but it [was/were] obvious	37
16	but it [was/were] obvious	37
17	but it [was/were] one	32
18	but it [was/were] one	32
19	but it [was/were] hard	30
20	but it [was/were] hard	29
21	but it [was/were] good	28
22	but it [was/were] true	24
23	but it [was/were] true	24
24	but it [was/were] enough	18
25	but it [was/were] better	18
26	but it [was/were] enough	18
27	but it [was/were] such	16
28	but it [was/were] such	16
29	but it [was/were] easy	13
30	but it [was/were] useless	12