Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work for older women was as badly paid , but for many it was more of a gain because they had not earned at all while their children were young . |
| 2 | The EDC was to be a military organisation , but for many it was also to be a further step along the road to European integration . |
| 3 | We went down to The Marquee the following morning and I think Ralph came up to us and said that we could have the money for all the gigs , including the Brummel Club , but after that we were finished . |
| 4 | Both batsmen benefited from early dropped catches , Moxon on three and Kellett , 18 , but after that they were in charge . |
| 5 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 6 | But after that I was always seeing her , all over the place . |
| 7 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 8 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 9 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 10 | But after this it was United who took the initiative as they sought to get back into the game . |
| 11 | He saw loving someone as weakness , but despite that he was forcing himself to go on . |
| 12 | But despite this he was placed in a cell by himself and left unchecked for long periods . |
| 13 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |
| 14 | She had a remarkable memory for names and faces , which helped , but above all it was her genuine kindness that not even the most irate could withstand . |
| 15 | Of course this film was a condemnation of sweat-shop conditions , and of course it was a melodrama in which poor girls have affairs with the boss 's sons and in which the heroine brandishes a gun in order to make one son do the honourable thing but above all it was a vehicle for a star who had already become one of Hollywood 's hottest properties . |
| 16 | Yes ! she was beautiful but above all she was blessed and kind and sweet , and I never thought of her as beautiful . |
| 17 | Matilda was both of these things , but above all she was brilliant . |
| 18 | But in 1945 he was allowed to join the US Army — as a civil censor . |
| 19 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 20 | But in general it was good for mankind to look outward to the stars . |
| 21 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 22 | But in 1838 it was Malthus 's theodicy of ancient empires , not his political economy of the modern state that bore decisively on Darwin 's biogeography and ecology ( Bowler , 1976 ) . |
| 23 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 24 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 25 | They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole . |
| 26 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 27 | Administratively the unit was originally part of the direct responsibility of the Assistant Director , Scotland but in 1974 it was transferred to the Continental Shelf and Geophysical Division of IGS . |
| 28 | The modest honours he received were mainly from natural history societies , but in 1873 he was awarded the honorary degree of MA by Yale University , in 1902 the Victoria medal of honour by the Royal Horticultural Society , and in 1903 the gold medal of the Linnean Society . |
| 29 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 30 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |