Example sentences of "but it [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 2 | It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort . |
| 3 | And erm so we set off and I ca n't remember which village it was but it was towards the Humber Estuary somewhere and it was what I call a cul-de-sac village . |
| 4 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 5 | But it was during the night you see , the the nineteen fifty three one was started wayward nine or ten o'clock . |
| 6 | But it was during the Enlightenment that the breadth and depth of Scottish thought was shown most brilliantly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was during the war that real expansion occurred as branches turned with renewed vigour to improve child and maternity welfare . |
| 9 | But it was on the comm , put straight through to me without warning . |
| 10 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |
| 11 | But it was on the continent that the cream of the drivers could be found . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it was over the husband of her closest friend that she grieved most deeply . |
| 15 | But it was at the business end where the main difference lay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Suddenly I say one of the ‘ Stop Checkpoint ’ signs that are ubiquitous in Ulster , but it was outside the Leggykelly , a pub just five hundred yards south of the border . |
| 19 | There were other huts visible as outlines in the mist of early afternoon , but it was to the hut with the figure ‘ 2 ’ painted in yellow on the doorway that they were led . |
| 20 | A marriage of Baptists believers , this : Charles , unlike his brother John , was never a full member of Badcox Lane Chapel , and he was even to play safe by having his children christened at the parish church ; but it was to the Baptists he turned whenever there was a death in the family , and eventually he and his wife would find a last resting place in the chapel burial ground on Catherine Hill . |
| 21 | In fact , the use of pesticides in cereal farming is largely limited to seed dressings and sometimes aphicides , but it was to the use of persistent organo-chlorine seed dressings that the decline in birds of prey in the late 1950s and early 1960s was convincingly attributed . |
| 22 | There was a right decision and a wrong decision , but it was for the king to make it , and if the wrong one were made Anselm would leave the kingdom . |
| 23 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |
| 24 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 25 | The " idea " of a Papal State had appeared very early , and definitely by the ninth century , but it was with the reform movement of the eleventh and early twelfth century that the notion of an independent Papal State really took hold . |
| 26 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 27 | But it was against the Mirror , not drug dealer Marshall . |
| 28 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 29 | Er yes I saw a small erm Afro-Caribbean child erm near the bed , whereabouts he was I I I I 'm not sure but it was near the bed . |
| 30 | Notice had been received but it was after the deadline and therefore not valid . |