Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 2 | The special relationship was born of a common heritage , but it was nurtured by American and British self-interest as well . |
| 3 | There was still pleasure in it somewhere , but it was choked by exasperating routine : waiting for the staff to go , getting undressed , making up the bed , before the fleeting moment of physical relief was attained . |
| 4 | Primitive their house certainly was , with its earthen floor , mud walls , thatched roof and rude furniture ; but it was imbued by those two remarkable and lovable people with a warmth that few homes can ever have equalled . |
| 5 | But it was said by many doubters that British Airways could never be privatised . |
| 6 | Heads played a crucial part in developing such a culture , but it was sustained by other leaders ( especially deputies ) and by active participation of staff members . |
| 7 | But it was beset by internal politics and narrow-mindedness . |
| 8 | The new youth movement of the 1880s shared many of these concerns in varying degrees , but it was motivated by several other ambitions which included keeping boys ‘ off the streets ’ , actively teaching the value of discipline , spreading the public school esprit de corps , and generally advocating the intangible virtues of ‘ character ’ . |
| 9 | But it was confirmed by harder evidence , above all by the national survey conducted for the 1960 Royal Commission on the Police . |
| 10 | It was only a relatively small Arab army that arrived in Egypt in AD 639 , but it was welcomed by many Egyptians anxious to see the overthrow of the unpopular Byzantine rulers . |
| 11 | But it was passed by 848 votes to 10 . |