Example sentences of "[num] but [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 2 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 3 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 4 | A national constitutional conference opened in Kinshasa on July 31 but was immediately suspended for one week after opposition delegates complained that rural areas were inadequately represented . |
| 5 | The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations , and eventually reached the ship-breaker 's yard in Rosyth in 1983 . |
| 6 | A similar invitation was issued by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 but was never taken up . |
| 7 | A previous request for a pelican crossing was approved in 1988 but was never implemented . |
| 8 | Constitutional changes to allow for a multiparty system , one of the MNR 's main demands , had been introduced in 1990 but were apparently disregarded by the rebel movement . |