Example sentences of "but some [prep] [art] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some of the astonishment was that we had Clark here resident in Edinburgh to show us in magnificent playing , the possibilities of this music . |
| 2 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 3 | But some of the lasses were too embarrassed to say . |
| 4 | Most of the snow vanished within seconds , going straight to its gaseous state , but some of the crystals were the hexagonal sweetness of honest-to-goodness iced water . |
| 5 | But some of the hopefuls were definitely not keen on the idea of stardom … |
| 6 | But some of the protests were unrelated and their coincidental timing indicates shared feelings of frustration and resentment among the student population , who were extremely sensitive to official party moves . |
| 7 | There was to a certain extent but some of the homes were hovels . |
| 8 | World stockmarkets reacted with relief and optimism at the start of the Gulf war , but some of the gains were wiped out when the first hopes of a quick victory faded , and the Soviet Union turned violent again . |
| 9 | But some in the movement were uneasy about viewing realism primarily as an appeal to a social scientific approach to law . |