Example sentences of "[art] [noun] but it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 2 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 3 | The English government maintained a small military force in the islands but it was not large enough to guarantee the English population against slave revolt or foreign invasion , and the settlers had to make an effort on their own account as well . |
| 4 | If you have , for example , never been a telephone subscriber before ( that is , even if you have had communal use of a telephone but it was not in your name ) you will have to pay a new subscriber charge plus a connection charge . |
| 5 | Andrew Sentance , economics director at the Confederation of British Industry , said the economy was balanced on a knife-edge but it was not possible to say whether it was heading irretrievably for recession . |
| 6 | Considering the fears of Jacobite invasion there was something to be said for such a policy but it was not popular , especially in London , which had become the centre of support for Pitt and the war . |
| 7 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |