Example sentences of "but it was [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was certainly the view of the right hon. Gentleman in the debate last week , but it was flatly contradicted by his right hon. and learned Friend the shadow Chancellor on television at the weekend . |
| 2 | Bishop Ralph de Luffa began a complete rebuilding in 1091 , but it was badly damaged by fire in 1114 . |
| 3 | The negotiated settlement was hailed as a historic breakthrough which would protect the ecology of the rainforest , but it was bitterly opposed by non-Indian landowners who feared that they would be driven off and their properties confiscated . |
| 4 | It was far too big for one , but it was regularly cleaned by the leaseholders of the building , who maintained all services and looked out for security . |
| 5 | There were a few clubs at the lower end of the street , but it was mostly owned by monolithic movie companies . |
| 6 | This criticism was expressed most often by physical science students , but it was also made by physics students ; for example |
| 7 | It was different from the one where she had bought her extra , but it was also manned by Mickey Rooney . |
| 8 | It was functional — but it was also enjoyed by the child . |
| 9 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 10 | Lewis er Jochim rather Laws wins it back now Webb Crosby making a good run and he releases it but it was well read by Greyson . |
| 11 | But it was strongly felt by many in the court , and indeed by the Shah himself . |
| 12 | But it was soon followed by another American study of the elderly , Margaret Clark and Barbara Anderson 's Culture and Ageing ( 1967 ) , attacking the idea that disengagement was typical or commendable . |
| 13 | In relation to the recommendations Chair , I just pick on four points , the first one is , that at the political level , the proposal in the paper , and I should say , erm , and this is a matter of judgment , but it was widely supported by people I spoke to , there was considerable uncertainty and ambiguity in people 's minds about , about the present structure , in terms of the responsibilities of the J C C , vis a vis the community care advisory sub-committee . |
| 14 | But it was widely abandoned by the 1970s , a decade that historians may come to dub the graveyard of the socialist idea . |
| 15 | But it WAS clearly written by someone with an intimate knowledge of the royal marriage crisis before it became public in Andrew Morton 's controversial book . |
| 16 | This structure would in any case have presented problems of adaptation , but it was much worsened by the prevalence of pluralism with its associated non-residence . |
| 17 | When lost-wax casting came in , tin-bronze was used but it was gradually replaced by zinc-brass . |
| 18 | The Americans think they constructed the canal — and the lasting folk memory of that achievement in the United States provides much of the emotional underpinning that sustains the American anti-Noriega hysteria — but it was actually built by black workers from the Caribbean . |
| 19 | The main attempt to tackle the issue of bombing , the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare , is an admirable and detailed interpretation of customary rules and general principles of the laws of war , but it was never adopted by states in legally binding form — partly because of the belief , widely held in the aftermath of the First World War that the important thing was to prevent war altogether , rather than to devise rules for how it might be conducted . |
| 20 | The site was bought by UPH in November 1988 but it was never owned by it because UPH transferred its interest in the contract to buy the site to another company called Chestvale Properties . |
| 21 | It offered union co-operation on pay claims in return for the government 's pledge to curb prices and inflation , but it was never underwritten by individual unions — a key weakness as it turned out . |
| 22 | By the time the Sex Pistols had arrived on Virgin , the initial enthusiasm for reggae among those running the label had begun to wane , but it was suddenly revived by an intriguing , and wholly unexpected , business opportunity . |
| 23 | The text of Lumen Gentium had been more or less left alone , but it was now prefixed by an ‘ Explanatory Note ’ ( Nota praevia ) which , it was clear when Archbishop Felici communicated it formally to the Council two days later , had come from Pope Paul himself . |
| 24 | But it was almost equalled by the customs duties , which , although not strictly speaking part of the Crown 's inheritance , were granted by Parliament throughout the Tudor period for the life of each monarch , to be used as he wished . |