Example sentences of "[noun pl] but it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 2 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |
| 3 | The state was not the originator of all these transformations but it was implicated in them in quite new ways . |
| 4 | Britain could not match these percentages but it was catching up , ‘ keeping up with the Joneses ’ . |
| 5 | The youth final was a game of many chances but it was defending champions Friends of Allonby who scored just five seconds before half time against Viking . |