Example sentences of "but [pron] was the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 2 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 3 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 4 | He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door . |
| 5 | But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas . |
| 6 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |
| 7 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 8 | She ought to phone Arnie to let him know she was back , but he was the last person she felt like speaking to right now . |
| 9 | But it was the second man who riveted Joan 's attention . |
| 10 | Expansion to north Italy brought into play the gold of the Val d'Aosta and south Piedmont , but it was the Second Punic War ( 218–201 B.C. ) which first increased the supply of gold significantly by taking in the alluvial deposits of the Guadalquivir . |
| 11 | But it was the second paragraph which did Mrs Greville 's work for her . |
| 12 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 13 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 14 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |
| 15 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 16 | But it was the first drug generally recognized as life saving in tuberculosis . |
| 17 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |
| 18 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 19 | She had an ear infection and she told the doctor , but it was the first I 'd heard of it . |
| 20 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 21 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 22 | But it was the first time Saddam Hussein had ever offered to withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 23 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 24 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 25 | I do n't know if it 's the sa I do n't think it 's the same one they have today but it was the first Land Rover that I can ever remember coming to the borders . |
| 26 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 27 | But it was the first time they had ever lived privately together . |
| 28 | It was tense for a few minutes … but it was the first home game … and the first win at stake . |
| 29 | But it was the first place they 'd owned together , after years of managing hotels for other people . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Richard has done it before , but it was the first time I have abseiled down a mine-shaft and the last , ’ said John , of Whitton Close , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |