Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er maybe half and hour history and half an hour geography and er science er but it were all ele very elementary stuff . |
| 2 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 3 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 4 | ‘ But it was such a firm structure nothing had moved . |
| 5 | But it was such a great opportunity , I could n't resist it . ’ |
| 6 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 7 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 8 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 9 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 10 | Then she would do housework , but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do . |
| 11 | But it was such perfect weather that if they could not get a fox away , even the most incompetent hunt in England could n't fail to make something of it . |
| 12 | ‘ But it was such a significant day in your life . |
| 13 | But it was such an inspired run the selectors could still give Matthew the nod for the English Schools . |
| 14 | but it was such a lot and we used |
| 15 | Which , every , every thing went sideways , but it was such fun |
| 16 | It 's my last weekend but it was such a scramble ! |
| 17 | No , but it was such to see sense |
| 18 | But it was such a lovely . |
| 19 | The first BREL/GEC Class 90 , an updated version of the Class 87 Bo-Bo , emerged from Crewe in mid-1988 , but it was many months before the state of the art electronics were mastered . |
| 20 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 21 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 22 | She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet . |
| 23 | But it was that cultural milieu , as expressed through the left-wing Federico Garçia Lorca , that Leonard reacted to and espoused in his youth ! |
| 24 | He was confronted , briefly , by an Arsenal supporter in the car park an hour after the match and Jensen said : ‘ Yes , Durie was kicking me — but it was that kind of game . ’ |
| 25 | But it was that voice that really nailed it ; that languid , partly-formed Brooklyn drawl moving somewhere in the area of the tune . |
| 26 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 27 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 28 | I strained to hear if it was a record but it was that tune , broken in his usual stumbling places . |
| 29 | So we accept that Thank you very much and I 'm grateful to you , I 'm sorry I 've gone but it was that general question rightly raised by |
| 30 | But it was that great Anglican , William Temple ( Archbishop of Canterbury ) , who identified what he called ‘ the real wealth of human life ’ , who saw that the individual was best fulfilled in the context of a strong community bound together in fellowship . |