Example sentences of "but that [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 2 | As Doug , Meadowbrook would be cast violently against type , but that was exactly the sort of doubletake effect I was interested in . |
| 3 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 4 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 5 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 6 | But that was just a full-dress rehearsal . |
| 7 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 8 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 9 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 10 | She wanted to dine with him , of course she did — but that was just the trouble . |
| 11 | Certainly we had a minority of outright failures , whose grasp of their work was negligible , but that was generally the case . |
| 12 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 13 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 14 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 15 | Those with long memories may recall that the Solo made its first appearance at the 1987 Frankfurt Motor Show , but that was only a mock-up prototype . |
| 16 | He wanted to see the believers in Rome , but that was only a part . |
| 17 | Certainly David Stirling 's theories had been vindicated in a spectacular way , but that was only the beginning . |
| 18 | But that was only the half of it . |
| 19 | But that was only the start . ’ |
| 20 | Admittedly no one could hear , but that was hardly the point , I could . |
| 21 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
| 22 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |
| 23 | But that was basically a case of Bicourt doing the Board 's job . |
| 24 | A few activists might have seen it as more than that , but that was never the view of the General Council . |