Example sentences of "but [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 2 | But seeing it was never enough . |
| 3 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 4 | They joked about this , but so it was . |
| 5 | It seems odd , now , but so it was : this is what young people did in those days . |
| 6 | But so it was . |
| 7 | Staff at Coopers were told that a name for the new firm had not been decided , but that it was likely that it would start with Coopers . |
| 8 | Geoff Keerie , assistant city environmental health officer , said the council was disappointed with the result of the appeal , but that it was content that the threat of a serious risk to public health had been removed . |
| 9 | Doctors said yesterday his condition had improved significantly , but that it was still serious . |
| 10 | Mr Ritblat said yesterday that he was prepared to sell the properties off piecemeal and had put no timescale on the disposal of assets , but that it was conceivable that a big foreign investor might move in to buy the portfolio in its entirety . |
| 11 | Then , next time , when the horse is to be shod it will remember not only being shod , but that it was n't afraid . |
| 12 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 13 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 14 | Harvey 's group , for example , found that peeling paint in the home related to lower IQ , but that it was nothing to do with lead in the paint , relating more probably to the influence of the parents . |
| 15 | She said afterwards that she had never experienced anything like it , but that it was not unpleasant or fearful . |
| 16 | Your mum said you were n't liking the Smoke much better but that it was alright . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 18 | Earlier this month , a US District Court in Columbus awarded Reynolds £18 million compensation and said there was a ‘ substantial likelihood that the report of Reynolds 's drug use was not only false , but that it was disseminated with malice . ’ |
| 19 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 20 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 21 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 22 | Can you not imagine the world-wide reaction when it is learnt that not only is America responsible for this potential disaster but that it was almost certainly caused by treason in the highest American military echelons ? |
| 23 | In a recent article in a Dutch newspaper ( NRC Handelsblad 25.3.92 ) , Keune was quoted as saying that the paint was ‘ an industrial product with good properties for objects which have to endure a lot of wear and tear , but that it was not something to be used in restorations . |
| 24 | In pre-Big Bang times there existed a widespread belief that the then existing regulatory framework was not only propping up an inefficient system but that it was also outmoded and fast becoming inadequate for the protection of investors . |
| 25 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 26 | He also knew ‘ allowed ’ was not exactly the word but that it was more a question of not bothering . |
| 27 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 28 | Thus , although the US had been told by the French not only that there was no question of the ‘ reconquest ’ of Indo-China but that it was also doubtful that France had the military strength to accomplish it , they were also invited to believe , by the French , that Ho was in direct contact with Moscow and was receiving advice and instructions from the Soviets . |
| 29 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 30 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |