Example sentences of "but [pron] was [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went round the corner of the building shining his lamp but nothing was to be seen . |
| 2 | But I was to be disappointed . |
| 3 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 4 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 5 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 6 | There were to be three more co-opted Governors , to be appointed for a term of five years , but none was to be appointed until the original " life " Governors gave up their seats . |
| 7 | But who was to be general in his place ? ’ |
| 8 | What prompted blunter speaking we do not know , but there was to be no lack of plainness in the English memorandum drawn up on the 31st . |
| 9 | But there was to be no resting , particularly with Jeffrey Archer keeping an eye on the time . |
| 10 | But there was to be no happy ending , as first Barwick and then Treleaven beat his mark by a stroke , the latter even bogeying his last hole , the 18th , after his drive found the trees . |
| 11 | But there was to be no rest . |
| 12 | They were to tutor the child who refused to attend school , but there was to be more to it than that . |
| 13 | But there was to be no reversal of the British attitude . |
| 14 | But there was to be a change . |
| 15 | John hoped that Mr Gubb would now spare the boy : but there was to be no remission ; the penalty had to be paid , the example given . |
| 16 | But there was to be no repeat of the growing anti-war movement of 1916 . |
| 17 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 18 | Salaries were to be increased by 9% , full London Weighting of £1776 to be given to all London staff , but there was to be no reduction in differentials . |
| 19 | But there was to be Norman Lamont and a tr and treasury ministers , three or four of them . |
| 20 | By conceding a large part of Reagan 's requests in both budget cuts and tax reductions , Jones hoped that compromise with the White House would be possible , but he was to be bitterly disappointed . |
| 21 | The first task of working out a method whereby society can be apprehended as a social system for the organization of production , rather than as a structure of consciously realized institutions , is only sketched out in The German Ideology , but it was to be developed in all of Marx 's later work , and it culminated in the analysis of capitalism contained in the three volumes of Capital . |
| 22 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 23 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 24 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 25 | But it was to be completely apart from the real functions of government , and courtiers were neither expected nor permitted to be politicians . |
| 26 | But it was to be some considerable time before any more was heard of the letters or of Sir George . |
| 27 | The arch was to remain one of the important station motifs but it was to be matched and surpassed by the tower . |
| 28 | But it was to be Cardiff and not Oxford , railways and not mathematics . |
| 29 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
| 30 | This was an elegant and substantial location for higher education but it was to be only the beginning . |