Example sentences of "but there [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conceivably , if the revolt had spread to take in substantial parts of the country then , to anticipate Maoist precepts of the future , the countryside would have surrounded the cities ; but at this time not only were there no ‘ sympathetic detonations ’ in other parts of the country but there was practically no challenge whatever to French power in the cities . |
| 2 | Alternances was built on fragments of Romanian folk songs but there was also a feel of this in the Scherzo too for its somewhat frenetic and flamboyant violin melodies brought to mind the gypsy fiddlers of Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 4 | If there was a swell on the east side where the the grating but there was also a gully landing which you get into the gully but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully and there was a derrick there er you could a crane there that you could take everything out of the boat but it had to be a very fine day to get into the gully . |
| 5 | But there was also a tendency in both kingdoms for more and more power to pass into the hands of the chancellor . |
| 6 | A warning pulse quickened within her body , but there was also a kind of excitement , a high tension which disrupted her normal caution . |
| 7 | It 's true we saw a lot of the negative side of human behaviour , but there was also a lot of the positive side . |
| 8 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 9 | As I have tried to demonstrate , there were good ideological reasons for Free Presbyterians to be Protestant Unionists , but there was also an element of personal loyalty . |
| 10 | It was achieved , erm , through reorganisation , it was achieved through careful planning of expenditure , but there was also an element of of luck in that erm , the staff vacancy level that we had pending the reorganisation , was was higher than we had had planned for . |
| 11 | Looking up , she saw her old mistress understood perfectly her misery and confusion and was sorry for it but there was also an air of what looked remarkably like satisfaction about her . |
| 12 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 13 | But there was also the realisation that the economy was in trouble and the country was facing many problems . |
| 14 | But there was also the question of Osvaldo 's grace on that evening , his special calmness ; his natural generosity and his ruthless decisiveness in tandem at the very last . |
| 15 | Part of this was the continuation of the mobilization of the very large reserves of female labour on industrial Tyneside , particularly in the clothing industry , but there was also the Formica plant which was opened in 1947 . |
| 16 | Not only did the mourners expect a meal but there was also the priest 's fee , plus an appropriate ‘ donation ’ to church funds . |
| 17 | For a long time , though , not only was contact thought of as inappropriate and as transgressing the traditional image of adoption , but there was also the view that the Adoption Act did not provide for access or contact . |
| 18 | She could have called his bluff and told him to drop dead , but there was just a chance he might ditch her : and then all that spade work would be for nothing . |
| 19 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 20 | But there was soon a limit to this process of adjustment : once perfection had been reached they were vulnerable to changes in habitat . |
| 21 | But there was absolutely no point in dwelling on that , she thought resolutely . |
| 22 | But there was absolutely no news of the men . |
| 23 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 24 | But there was still a residue of the functions of social reputation and recommendation . |
| 25 | But there was still a degree of anger in her voice . |
| 26 | This meant that the classrooms were not so crowded , but there was still a shortage of paper and pencils . |
| 27 | But there was still a world of difference between this and the vicious and arbitrary manner in which he had committed femicide . |
| 28 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 29 | Most of the younger generation of farmers had good basic skills but there was still a need for technical updating and the acquiring of new skills . |
| 30 | ‘ Abe ’ Finkel and his colleagues carried out what the critic Abel Green described as the ‘ canny Burbanking ’ of the material , but there was still a need for intervention by Breen , who asked Wallis to ensure that the film was not a direct attack on conditions in the mines . |