Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] but it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much more of the same but it was not long before she found what she was looking for . |
| 2 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 3 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |
| 4 | The earlier charters after 1135 gave rights to the latter but it was not until the 1220s that the authority of the episcopal servants was finally replaced by elected bailiffs , soon to become the mayors . |
| 5 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |