Example sentences of "but it was [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was night of despair for Villa , who had that great championship feeling after going two points clear at the top at the weekend . |
| 2 | But it was part of a performance by one of the contenders for the Ninth National Review of Live Art . |
| 3 | He hesitated before slipping the President 's boxer shorts down but it was part of the job . |
| 4 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 5 | You know , sandwiches or whatever she just have , like , but it was kind of |
| 6 | Dependent development theorists , on the other hand , acknowledged capitalist development in the Third World , particularly in the NICs , but it was development of a peculiar kind , namely dependent development . |
| 7 | I was out with erm an nephew la last night and I mean it was n't icy but it was sort of getting late and it was cold . |
| 8 | But it was sort of let me think it was over and it only looked about that big . |
| 9 | When she was released she had gained some weight , but it was fear of rehospitalisation rather than a true recovery that kept her from losing all the weight again . |
| 10 | But it was hatred of myself that drove me , not love of dancing . |
| 11 | but it was waste of time because he , he , he did n't know , he was n't Clifford , well that 's what he said to me , it 's not Clifford you know |