Example sentences of "but [adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Labour was shaken to the core by a passionate battle for the deputy leadership ( a post originally created to placate Herbert Morrison after 1951 ) between Denis Healey and Tony Benn . |
| 2 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
| 3 | I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush . |
| 4 | The date by which all supplies should have met the Directive 's standard was July 1985 , but little was done in the UK as the government hoped to negotiate a laxer standard . |
| 5 | But little was known of the nature and causation of mental disorder and so provision for treatment was minimal . |
| 6 | But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 . |
| 7 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 8 | The latter proposed an 18-point austerity plan but this was rejected by the council , and on Oct. 2 some 5,000 municipal workers went on strike in protest at the non-payment of their salaries . |
| 9 | Brooke subsequently apologized and offered his resignation , but this was rejected by the Prime Minister , John Major . |
| 10 | The employers pleaded volenti non fit injuria but this was rejected by the court . |
| 11 | Southern nations called for specific funds to be made available to support the improvements , but this was rejected by the northern donor nations . |
| 12 | When they were in control of the council , Tories proposed an underground car park beneath the market square and a multi-storey car park in Beaumont Street but this was rejected by the Labour administration as impractical . |
| 13 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 14 | Indignation over the military intervention in Panama by the United States in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ; 37271 ] led to the withdrawal of co-operation by Peru in anti-drugs operations , but this was resumed at the end of that month . |
| 15 | Unionists had a slight majority of the English borough seats , but this was based on the small towns of the West and South rather than the heavy industrial centres of the North . |
| 16 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 17 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 18 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | The doctor introduced a modern element of feminism to the proceedings , but this was undercut by the tenor of the main storyline , which was depressingly unreconstructed and featured a particularly cruel stereotype of the sex-starved spinster fantasising about rape . |
| 20 | Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight . |
| 21 | But this was opposed by the USA who , having the strictest standards in the world for the disposal of waste , would consequently have been unable to export waste anywhere else . |
| 22 | Kombayi , a former mayor of Gweru and a ZANU-PF stalwart until his impeachment in 1984 for beating up a local shopkeeper , claimed that the Central Intelligence Organization was responsible , but this was denied by the Zimbabwean authorities . |
| 23 | In time , each city constructed its necropolis ; but this was situated in the outskirts . |
| 24 | The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a model of human origins based very much on Haeckel 's linear progressionism , but this was replaced in the early years of the twentieth century by a theory more in tune with the new paleontology . |
| 25 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 26 | But this was tempered by the disclosure that 35 per cent of firms expect to cut jobs over the same period . |
| 27 | For instance , there had been a trend , in the early 1970s , towards a more equal distribution of income between regions of the UK , but this was reversed under the Conservative government after 1979 , when the share of national income received by south-east England increased in connection with the location of wealthier groups . |
| 28 | Around 300 people managed to board a ship which set sail , but this was intercepted in the harbour by coastguards . |
| 29 | The Bill provided additionally for fees for appeals but this was dropped in the face of widespread objections from both sides of the House . |
| 30 | Constantine the Great , it is true , gave the bishops a more substantial role in the administration of justice , but this was reduced during the fourth and fifth centuries . |