Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Leeds chose to play a rather strange formation in which McAllister operated at right-back and Speed was anywhere but where he is most effective , on the left flank . |
| 2 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 3 | The work was hard but rewarding and Madeline had the joy of pointing many into the Kingdom of God . |
| 4 | But that other bloke was there but he was n't in his normal place . |
| 5 | As I walked , this mood was gradually but smoothly replaced by one of utmost depression , while my body — as though jealous of all the obsessive regard my emotions were receiving — came up with its own demands for attention , evidenced by an unsteady , fluid shifting in my guts , and a cold sweat on my brow . |
| 6 | The revelation was there but not everybody had eyes to see it . |
| 7 | Too often their name was there but they either did n't appear , sending in someone else , or went only with someone else with them . |
| 8 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 9 | She wished her father was home but he was very rarely around much these days , and when he was her mother fought with him . |
| 10 | The BR train was late but there was a compensation — it was , as somebody remarked , a ‘ proper train ’ , in other words loco hauled . |
| 11 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 12 | The great man was bloody but unbowed . |
| 13 | Aware that the Danes were famous for their elegant designs and their ‘ down comforters ’ she was n't surprised to find her single bed covered by a thick duvet quilt , or to discover the fitted furniture was simply but efficiently styled . |
| 14 | Your first prescription was right but a new remedy is now needed . |
| 15 | The new Government was principally but not exclusively a Unionist one . |
| 16 | Born in 1844 to a family noted for its piety and scholarship , Lazarus had decided to emigrate to Canada in 1869 , having heard reports of the young country 's potential : its federation was then but two years old . |
| 17 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 18 | His voice was deep but perfectly modulated ; a voice of music , a chorister 's voice . |
| 19 | His voice was loud but without animosity . |
| 20 | This second phase ( 1945–56 ) must in turn be contrasted with the post-1956 , post-Stalinist phase during which the credibility of the Zhdanov line was slowly but irreversibly undermined , and the centre of gravity of Marxist cultural activity shifted away from orthodox socialist realism to a variety of experiments involving linkages between revolutionary politics and formalist experimentation at the level of imaginative writing , and between Marxist theory and innovations in the human sciences at the level of critical analysis . |
| 21 | I knew the risk was there but it did n't become a major concern . |
| 22 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 23 | The following week 's press was hard but fair : Reading Festival — A Joke ! |
| 24 | The custom of wearing jet jewellery as a symbol of mourning was quietly but effectively dropped . |
| 25 | The heat was there but in the evening it was humid and sweaty . |
| 26 | trifle left , and by the time the trifle was there but there was no sandwiches or . |
| 27 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 28 | The bag had been re-used , the original sender 's label was there but a small plain one had been stuck on top of it . |
| 29 | LIKE thousands of other my family was indirectly but irrevocably affected by the unrest of the early 1970s . |