Example sentences of "but [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police kept up their enquiries and one or two likely candidates rose to the surface , but nothing was clearly actionable . |
| 2 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 3 | but nothing was there in her . |
| 4 | A few years later in the ice-packed snow outside Moscovy , but nothing was as chilling as that short , desperate run in Paris . ] |
| 5 | But nothing was hitherto known of their work . |
| 6 | But nothing was ever said to the rider . |
| 7 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 8 | His financial dealings led to a number of lawsuits and accusations of fraud , but nothing was ever proved against him . |
| 9 | ‘ If I did , I would have told the King 's Justices , but nothing was ever discovered about them or their dreadful deaths . ’ |
| 10 | The warning was stark enough , but nothing was ever done . |
| 11 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 12 | But no-one was very sure that any specific biochemical processes , apart from the rather general one of protein synthesis , had yet been unequivocally linked to memory formation , and the community had become distinctly cautious about evaluating any new claims . |
| 13 | He hastily looked down the corridor , but no-one was there . |
| 14 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 15 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 16 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 17 | Firemen originally thought that workmen who are refurbishing the building were trapped inside , but everyone was eventually accounted for . |
| 18 | But everyone was uncomfortably aware of last night 's scene . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting , ’ said Courier , ‘ but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 21 | But everyone was too polite to mention it . |
| 22 | We broke its neck and ate it , but everyone was really upset for days , especially my mother . ’ |
| 23 | But his was largely a media conglomerate : the prime example of those distinctive features listed earlier : large in scope and scale , with modern management and a shifting and volatile balance of interests . |
| 24 | But his was still a subject class . |
| 25 | It may sound naive but I was largely ignorant of the effects of either Radiotherapy or Chemotherapy . |
| 26 | But I was completely impressed by Charlie 's big con trick , by his having knocked on the door of opportunity and its opening up to him , its goods tumbling out . |
| 27 | It was all over so quickly but I was completely terrified . |
| 28 | But I was even more thrilled by the fact that our little tiff had been meaningless and that we were still good friends . |
| 29 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 30 | If you want to call an issue but I was on about setting up these committees to assess the standard of care . |