Example sentences of "[num] but [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delivery van , costing £6,000 , which Transom Trading ordered on 20 December 1991 but which was finally delivered and paid for on 2 January 1992 . |
| 2 | Houses and some streets appeared after 1660 but it was not until 1775 when Bedford Square was laid out that the growth of Bloomsbury began . |
| 3 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 4 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 5 | Knott did his best with another fifty but it was all over with eighty minutes to spare ; all out 203 and victory by 231 runs . |
| 6 | It began to spread to other areas after 1770 but it was not until about 1830 , when roads were improving , that this relatively isolated breed was gradually developed for dray-pulling as well . |
| 7 | War was declared in August 1914 but it was not until the following year that it made much of an impression on the affairs of the Union . |
| 8 | Behind the wheel , the 6-litre did n't sound as quiet as the 5.3 but there was no doubting its ability . |
| 9 | He had grown another inch or two but he was still plump and rosy , with a solid contented look about him . |
| 10 | No it did n't come anywhere near the performance I would expect from even a 25MHz 486 but it was nevertheless fast . |
| 11 | It is true that Sir Thomas Dugdale insisted on resigning over the Crichel Down case in 1954 but he was not pressed to go . |
| 12 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |
| 15 | The government published its White Paper on the Environment on Sept. 25 , 1990 but it was widely criticized both by politicians and by environmentalists as merely reiterating measures already incorporated into the Environmental Protection Bill which was going through parliament and was enacted on Nov. 1 , 1990 . |
| 16 | King James ' Bishop Auckland , made 84 for seven but it was not enough Hurworth , near Darlington , reached 87 for eight with the runs spread around . |