Example sentences of "but [pron] was [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 2 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 3 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 4 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 5 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |