Example sentences of "but [was/were] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 2 | It was not a grim , agonising programme but was undertaken in a calm and relaxed way . |
| 3 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 4 | A former member of the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and head of the DPP 's moderate Formosa faction , Hsu was imprisoned for sedition on his return from exile in 1989 , but was released in a presidential amnesty in 1990 . |
| 5 | Excellent Adventure went belly-up in auditoriums but was reanimated in a healthy video afterlife which led to Bogus Journey , the some-would-say superior sequel achieving respectable box office figures . |