Example sentences of "[noun] but it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect . |
| 2 | We started calling them Ronnie but it got a bit confusing . |
| 3 | It was sold as the fulfilment of a dream but it became a nightmare for many . |
| 4 | Speculating like this was always a pointless exercise but it occupied a portion of any day . |
| 5 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 6 | Libya was still a Kingdom in those days but it had no aviation legislation , so the entire investigation was conducted in accordance with Annex 13 , though with considerable emphasis on the British interpretation of it . |
| 7 | Jezrael could see that her personal data was offering the captain a wide range of possibilities but it had no personal significance for Chesarynth 's little sister . |
| 8 | This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun-making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . |
| 9 | The introduction of the card was a further extension of that aim but it required the establishment of a network of businesses which would accept the cards and provide a service to the cardmember . |
| 10 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |
| 11 | I hit it several times but it had no effect . |
| 12 | The treaty was not , predictably , adopted by the member states but it encouraged the governments to look again at reform . |
| 13 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 14 | The search spanned three continents but it uncovered a pathetic bounty . |
| 15 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 16 | The GCC was not originally intended as a military security organisation but it created the framework for non-bloc security cooperation which in principle meant rejecting both Western offers of military protection and the Soviet scheme for an international conference to transform the Gulf into a neutral zone . |
| 17 | Another advantage was being near enough to the basecamp to go back for lunch ; not only did it mean we could have a hot drink but it avoided the clammy sensation , which Carole graphically described , of sitting down for lunch when you 're soaked on the outside and soaked on the inside . |
| 18 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 19 | It was a strange misdemeanour but it launched The Doc on a career of unparalleled misbehaviour , which included regular confrontations with the footballing authorities and inevitable conflict with the law . |
| 20 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 21 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 22 | This was a rather partial view of the critical phase of the antislavery movement but it presented a satisfactorily smooth expansion beyond the ‘ aristocracy ’ of antislavery to the successful incorporation of provincial respectability in an essentially religious endeavour and led by Claphamites and their heirs . |
| 23 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 24 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 25 | It nearly caused a diplomatic incident but it had the effect of making the magistrate agree that the recording should go to London . |
| 26 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 27 | Video re-runs hinted that Dowie had impeded a defender thus giving Quinn the necessary space but it seemed a harsh decision . |
| 28 | Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference : whatever kind of front five was chosen , static or mobile , Wales were beaten , and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990 . |
| 29 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 30 | This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose . |