Example sentences of "but it was [art] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus most forest and tundra peoples sacrificed reindeer , but it was a dog which was killed ( and eaten ) by those peoples ( Nanai , Ulcha , Nivkh and Koryak ) who used dog-teams for transport , while the sacrificial animal of the Buryats , Yakuts and other Turkic peoples was the horse . |
| 2 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 3 | His dark face usually held a cool austereness but it was a severity which , fast as quicksilver , could melt into warmth and charm . |
| 4 | Its essential features had few clear and unqualified expressions , but it was a civilization which had come to be distinguished from others by the emphasis it placed on the individual , by its increasing separation of social and political institutions , by its material wellbeing , and by its growing rationality . |
| 5 | But it was a torment which had to be seen and analysed . |
| 6 | But it was an American whose vision prompted such grand travel . |
| 7 | In response to an appeal by the Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger ( USTN ) on May Day 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system , Mamadou Dagra , the Minister of Civil Service and Labour , said that this was not excluded by Niger 's current political system , but it was an issue which should not be pursued with haste . |
| 8 | But it was an age which saw the slow , sure , and steady progress of social improvement and it was an age of hope , of optimistic belief in the future , unashamed aspiration for better days and better conditions in the world . |
| 9 | Yes but it was an aim which I 'm sure I I would , alright alright |
| 10 | But it was the Church which really fascinated me . |
| 11 | But it was the peace which people remembered , rather than the quarrel . |
| 12 | But it was the horses which decided the issue , as Ramsay had calculated they would . |
| 13 | It was only a small picture-framing shop which sold prints and posters and more-tasteful-than-average lampshades , but it was the name which held unpleasant associations for Graham : Stocks , That name chilled him . |
| 14 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 15 | But it was the view which drew her , like a magnet . |
| 16 | But it was the contents which counted . |
| 17 | But it was the eyes which caused Arthur 's bowels to move slightly . |
| 18 | The Sun warmed the bones , but it was the seeds which grew , feeding on the marrow in all the bones , which had cracked with the frost . |
| 19 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |