Example sentences of "but it was [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was Lapointe , all right . |
| 2 | But it was Ryker who sat forward to restrain his companion . |
| 3 | But it was Bob Calder who assumed that role . |
| 4 | But it was Owen 's fiddle-case , not his skull , it was aimed at , and as the lid flew open the Tan pounced on the fiddle and bow . |
| 5 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 6 | Ruth clenched her hands inside her cloak , nerving herself to follow him ; but it was Fand who did n't move . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 8 | The Benevolent Fund had existed for many years , but it was Harry Barber who first inaugurated in the Essex Section the Links scheme in which elderly and retired members keep in touch with each other for mutual support if required . |
| 9 | They all turned to look at her , but it was Harry 's reaction for which Madeleine was watching . |
| 10 | But it was Preston who 'd become the adulterer , not William . |
| 11 | I was then a disciple of Herbert Read 's and his " education of the senses " , but it was Basil , ill the no-nonsense power of his belief , who did much to give me a life-long conviction about the place of art education . |
| 12 | As a nation the Jews are responsible for his death , but it was Pontius Pilate who delivered him to be crucified , who announced the verdict , who pronounced the sentence . |
| 13 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 14 | But it was Woodruffe who came around from the cab . |
| 15 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 16 | But it was England 's batting which disappointed most of all , especially after Smith had defied the heat and humidity for seven and a half hours to make 128 and both Graeme Hick on Saturday and Alec Stewart yesterday had compiled five half-centuries . |
| 17 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 18 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 19 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |
| 20 | We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little . |
| 21 | It had taken £50,000 to bring Bobby back to the Palace from Leicester , but it was money well spent , for his presence was regarded by many as one of the major factors in Palace 's 1972 survival — and we recouped f 12,000 of it when Bobby bustled off to join Pompey just after Christmas . |
| 22 | But it was money that was on everybody 's mind in Baltimore that week , as indicated by the fact that inviting Mr Frohnmayer was an afterthought . |
| 23 | But it was money . |
| 24 | The movie have been politically motivated , but it was Marlon 's passion that took control and made the impact . |
| 25 | None of these men seemed fearsome to her , but it was Hugh , her personal guard , whom she was most inclined to trust . |
| 26 | I had thought of the desert as sand , but it was stone ; red stone and harsh dust and a wide , stone sky . |
| 27 | But it was Morse who answered : ‘ If you wish , Lewis , I will give you the names and addresses of the three of them there that open all day . |
| 28 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 29 | The duchess registered the sudden brightening of her daughter 's expression and the my Richard with some exasperation — but it was Joan 's face that caught her attention . |
| 30 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |