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Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late .
2	Topaz knew she would have to make her confession concerning her lost temper , but it was worth a penance .
3	I think even Nigel thought he was on dodgy ground here , but it was worth a try .
4	But it was worth a try .
5	but it was worth a try was n't it ?
6	I can say ‘ It was a failure but it was worth a go ’ .
7	We headed north to Port de Centuri on a trip that was only 35 miles yet seemed like 135 as a result of the sheer concentration needed on the mountain roads but it was worth every second because of the incredible views .
8	It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat .
9	It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort .
10	But it was during the night you see , the the nineteen fifty three one was started wayward nine or ten o'clock .
11	But it was during the Enlightenment that the breadth and depth of Scottish thought was shown most brilliantly .
12	Again , I can not remember what we had to eat , though we had tried to obtain a suitable cheese ; but it was during the meal that Eliot uttered one of the most Eliotic of his remarks .
13	But it was during the war that real expansion occurred as branches turned with renewed vigour to improve child and maternity welfare .
14	But it was on the comm , put straight through to me without warning .
15	But it was on the continent that the cream of the drivers could be found .
16	The Mas Rose had no gas , no electricity , no running water , but it was on the mountain , it had a spring , the air was pure , one could see the Ventoux , famous of course for the love of Pétrarque for Laure .
17	He began at left-back , but it was on the right that he really excelled and became recognised as a quality player by friend and foe alike .
18	Stop them ! " screamed the little peer , but it was of no avail .
19	But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic .
20	We 're nothing , of ourselves we might have thought we had but it was of no value whatsoever , but he took us , he says , now you 're something because you belong to me .
21	But it was over the husband of her closest friend that she grieved most deeply .
22	But it was as a broadcaster that Ron Pickering will be best remembered .
23	But it was as a cotton spinner , not a merchant , that Mayall excelled and by 1870 he controlled approximately 319,000 spindles , with c .1,350 hands .
24	But it was as a planner of convenient houses that he particularly excelled .
25	But it was as a leader of the unemployed that Hannington rose to national prominence .
26	Hiorne 's work in a classical idiom included two buildings of some individuality , the churches of St Anne 's , Belfast ( 1776 , demolished ) , which showed the influence of the baroque St Philip 's , Birmingham , and Tardebigge , Worcestershire ( 1777 ) , with its striking needle spire ; but it was as an architect specializing in the Gothic style that he gained a particular reputation .
27	We could still hear the fighting , but it was at a distance , while the sermons from the mosque were louder than ever .
28	But it was at the business end where the main difference lay .
29	Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up .
30	The Questura was barely fifty metres down the hill , but it was below the surface , and as Zen walked there from his hotel he felt the invisible moisture beading his newly shaved skin .