Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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1 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
2 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
3 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
4 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
5 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
6 | Why the machine had levers at each end was a mystery never satisfactorily explained to the boys , but it created another alley in Grandad 's life , the alley between one machine and another , and though there were no U-boats shooting at him , it was hard going with his bad leg . |