Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was simply a case of ‘ this is what I 've got , I like it and I 'm not going to get rid of it ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Just for a moment I thought I saw a flicker of emotion in her eyes , but it was probably a trick of the light . |
| 3 | But it was probably a can of lager . |
| 4 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 5 | We 'll keep an open mind about the caller 's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell , but it was probably a woman , probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday , and who did n't know that the appointment had been cancelled . |
| 6 | The later fate of the Sancy diamond has not been established with complete certainty , but it was probably the stone bought by William Waldorf Astor , 1 st Viscount Astor , in 1906 as a wedding present for his son . |
| 7 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 8 | Of Oswald 's dealings with the eastern Angles nothing is known , but it was probably the case that Anna , son of Eni , Raedwald 's nephew ( HE 11 , 15 : III , 18 ) , was established as king of the eastern Angles with northern Anglian assistance . |
| 9 | But it was also a relief . |
| 10 | Not only was it marvellous to visit such a fascinating country , but it was also a delight to meet so many keen and enthusiastic knitters who were a real pleasure to teach . |
| 11 | The Uprising was primarily a rejection of Israeli rule and an affirmation of Palestinian identity , but it was also a rejection of American interference . |
| 12 | For a start , it was more expensive ; but it was also a sign of conspicuous consumption , its enrichment slightly too ostentatious for a country with a preference for strong mass and modelling rather than upon lavish detail . |
| 13 | But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time . |
| 14 | Buxton 's strength was his sense of conscience on behalf of distant slaves but it was also a weakness from the perspective of militants in the country because it resisted dictation from collective antislavery opinion . |
| 15 | The Buddhist revival provided opportunities for upwardly-mobile social groups to gain status denied them by the largely Protestant mudaliyar families of the Low Country , but it was also a way for Sinhalese to challenge indirectly apparent British scientific , economic and political superiority . |
| 16 | This was in part an act of Yorkist pietas , since those who had suffered on the king 's behalf are particularly remembered , but it was also a plea for political continuity . |
| 17 | This was in part an act of Yorkist pietas , since those who had suffered on the king 's behalf are particularly remembered , but it was also a plea for political continuity . |
| 18 | Not only did it administer , but it was also a source of political rewards , through which the monarch could foster loyalty to his regime.l |
| 19 | The Playnes used it as a cloth mill in the 19th century but it was also a saw mill . |
| 20 | But it was also a period of remarkable creativity , in which he wrote his novels Inclinations ( 1916 ) , Caprice ( 1917 ) , and Valmouth ( 1919 ) . |
| 21 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 22 | But it was also a device to increase productivity : everyone was to work a five-day week . |
| 23 | But it was also a wish that the recipient have sons . |
| 24 | But it was also a throwback to a form of behaviour which , however natural it might have seemed to officer cadets in the First World War , was excruciatingly embarrassing to succeeding generations of Magdalen men . |
| 25 | But it was also an appetiser by way of preparing the American public for the full range of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ products to come . |
| 26 | But it was also an artery of their communications in a burgeoning world of churches , palaces , and trade . |
| 27 | Like the earlier book , Style in Fiction was intended as a course book for students , but it was also an attempt to develop a theory of prose style . |
| 28 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 29 | But it was also the decade in which , successively year after year , proposals for a general moratorium were rejected by the Commission . |
| 30 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |