Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were withdrawn at that time but enacted in 1894 along with provisions ‘ to introduce local self-government into rural parishes ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:216 ) . |
| 2 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |
| 3 | A number of men were employed on this task but in this month the tonnage was handled only by J. Lace , R. Sarginson and H.Swainson . |
| 4 | Waterloo , having been worn down in the trench warfare , were left with little option but to run the ball and were still in the match when , from 30 yards range , Buckton fashioned a fine try for the lively Saverimutto . |
| 5 | The illuminated manuscripts known as Books of Hours , produced in the Lowlands during the fifteenth century , particularly those containing the Office of the Dead , not only show how corpses were dressed at that time but also indicate how the limbs were positioned . |
| 6 | Penalty shootouts were required in each instance but only the most optimistic fan — or a representative from the Guinness Book of Records — would have forecast it happening again . |
| 7 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 8 | Yes , I , I was born in this house but er I do n't wish people to know er because er this is a funny world , I , I do n't know whether that 's being recorded I expect |
| 9 | c A poor service meant that GPs referred patients to another district , and the district providing the poor service was rewarded by less work but no deduction from their budget . |
| 10 | He was hiding behind another tree but stepped out to meet me . |
| 11 | She was tempted by that suggestion but remembered what had happened to Faith . |
| 12 | Reasonable performance was achieved in this task but the aggregation is being achieved by external operations on the objects rather than by the more conceptual approach of aggregation abstraction : new object classes with aggregation methods are defined to represent the various unit sizes . |
| 13 | I do n't know if I was thinking about Another Woman but if George was being blackmailed about something like … and he 'd taken you along because you were tough and … you see the silly fantasies I get into when I 'm alone ? ’ |
| 14 | Often the whole of the interior was covered in this way but the areas which received the most important designs and subjects were the dome , the apse , and the triumphal arch ( PLATES 27 , 31 , 34 , and 35 ) . |
| 15 | Thyroxine replacement treatment was begun with some improvement but by May the goitre had increased in size and began to cause local pressure effects . |