Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] but [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winter was cold but autumn is come — the stubble fields , and so on . |
| 2 | Registration was obligatory but voting was optional . |
| 3 | Ah yeah that 's why because because our business was smaller but business was big . |
| 4 | The ground was soft but fear ploughed the wheel through it , until at last I saw the Land Rover , silhouetted on a spit of amber . |
| 5 | Cleveland 's community development committee said the kitty was empty but club secretary Les Crossman promised the Bankers would survive until the end of the season . |
| 6 | Common sense told her to beat it while the going was good but loyalty held her , undecided . |
| 7 | Official attendance at Windsor Park was 6,500 but gate receipts for the international reflected a crowd of 9,000 ! |