Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 2 | It must be a bit like being a lapsed Catholic , he thought ; you knew you were right but felt you were wrong . |
| 3 | We were helpless but spurred our mothers into action with our cries for milk or affection , and through our lives we learn how to get what we want from our parents , partners or children . ) |
| 4 | Long term serological surveillance studies have also found that in most patients without H pylori infection , 12 months after anti- H pylori therapy , both specific IgA and specific IgG antibody values were lower but had not yet returned to the normal range . |
| 5 | My people were rich but robbed |
| 6 | But there was no money in conservation as far as the business people were concerned and the charities and voluntary bodies were well-meaning but lacked resources . |
| 7 | Romer J. held that the charges for re-cutting , repainting and regilding were illegal but refused to allow recovery of past payments for these . |
| 8 | Stoppages in the early 1960s were numerous but tended to be limited in the numbers of workers involved and in duration . |
| 9 | But at the first , near Sarajevo , Muslims told him they were hungry but had not been maltreated . |
| 10 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 11 | People in Britain were shocked but relieved to hear it , and two days later Hitler killed himself and Eva Braun whom he had married the previous day . |
| 12 | Some were limbless but bemedalled . |
| 13 | Representatives from the State Education Commission accepted that funds were insufficient but argued that the state could not be expected to provide for everything . |
| 14 | The record-keeping and office procedures implications of the Modular Course when it started in 1973 with an intake of 75 students were modest but have since grown with the Course . |
| 15 | The women were uninjured but shocked by the incident . |
| 16 | The nurses on the ward were strict but applauding . |
| 17 | Others were pro-reform but disapproved of the way the reforms were currently being implemented . |
| 18 | The four boys were young but funded the purchase themselves . |
| 19 | His spells in club management with Middlesbrough , Sheffield Wednesday and Newcastle United were enjoyable but demanding . |
| 20 | Once or twice he had confided in colleagues , who were sympathetic but had little personal experience of such illnesses which , in any case , were not in their field and Brian had become increasingly reserved , his life revolving round his work , his son and a wife with whom he had difficulty in communicating . |
| 21 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 22 | Others , including the London councils , were sympathetic but explained that it would take months , not hours , to get the decision through all the relevant committees . |
| 23 | And Janet Ellis caused an outcry by announcing she was pregnant but had no intention of marrying the baby 's father . |
| 24 | I suppose this was originally to give a sterile wife a period of grace — she could tell her husband she was pregnant but owing to the machinations of some female rival , the child was ‘ asleep ’ . ’ |
| 25 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 26 | The population in 1981 was 1,640 but housing development since then has substantially increased this number . |
| 27 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 28 | The door was solid but unlocked . |
| 29 | The pope was wrong ; the Curia was wrong ; Anselm 's judgement was right but had no authority ; the authority quoted by Ivo was certainly spurious , but it produced an acceptable result . |
| 30 | He conceded she was right but admitted that the frustration of having the MacQuillan case within feet of his desk and very little more information than reporters miles away had worn down his enthusiasm . |