Example sentences of "but that [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only important thing that had happened in her life of late was Fen , but that was a subject she must avoid . |
| 2 | Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted . |
| 3 | But that was a country noise and she was in London , in her uncle 's house . |
| 4 | But that was a bit later was n't it ? |
| 5 | But that was a bit dubious . |
| 6 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 7 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 8 | But that was a question she could not think about . |
| 9 | But that was a year ago and I was ready to take to the air again . |
| 10 | But that was a year later . |
| 11 | you know , but that was a nightmare really , well I did n't , I wo n't be surprised if that is n't the one he 's having |
| 12 | ’ But that was a catalyst for me . |
| 13 | ‘ I may have said AZT in our interviews but that was a mistake , ’ he wrote . |
| 14 | But that was a mistake in more ways than one . |
| 15 | He had a large menorah , the traditional Jewish seven-branched candle holder , in his living-room at Stuttgart , but that was a souvenir of his work in Israel . |
| 16 | But that was a pound . |
| 17 | They did n't know about the device of the hearing-aid , but that was a point in Charles 's favour ; it made his feat of getting through the part even more remarkable . |
| 18 | But that was a fact under the sectional council number three , the one that I was represented by , they seemed to be poor . |
| 19 | Yes , but that was a breeding centre there . |
| 20 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 21 | But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know . |
| 22 | He said also that my " values " were not good , distance and middle distance and foreground all rather muddled , but that was a matter of study . |
| 23 | I do n't want to see people nicked but that was a danger . |
| 24 | The model , which originated in the 1950s from the designer of the Cherokee , was shown at Cranfield , but that was a 20-year-old plus version . |
| 25 | No but that was a result of the er lan land law in itself was n't it ? |
| 26 | Saturday but that was a result of that radio programme , we had eighty seven people time of year Did they ? |
| 27 | But that was a world that Nicholson had no thoughts about and nor prospect of joining . |
| 28 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 29 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |