Example sentences of "but [det] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | But that was at the bottom of the second paragraph . |
| 3 | But that was for the future . |
| 4 | Perhaps , but that was for the future . |
| 5 | But that was for the future — you can read about it in one of my journals . ] |
| 6 | Two site foremen from Coventry had H19 and H20 ‘ front ’ , but that was across the aisle . |
| 7 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |
| 8 | She had come to no harm , but that was beside the point . |
| 9 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 10 | There were notices all over , but that was like the Army to bring her all the way over to Sweetmary not knowing Hatch & Hodges had shut down its stage service . |
| 11 | But that was in an era of different attitudes when punches were swapped more freely and no one thought less of a player for standing his ground in a fracas . |
| 12 | But that was in the blueness . |
| 13 | For her mask — but that was in the blueness too . |
| 14 | It did manage one win , though , but that was in the back of Jim Clarke 's Lotus 43 . |
| 15 | But that was in the past . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 17 | ‘ But that was in the chapel . ’ |
| 18 | They can be but that was in the fridge Emma it was in the fridge ? |
| 19 | An American had built a mountain lodge more than five hundred feet below the edge of the reserve where he offered horseback riding along the mountain trails and old logging roads — but that was in the tourist season which would n't officially open for a further month . |
| 20 | But that was in the future . |
| 21 | But that was in the future . |
| 22 | But that was before the murder of the Bulgarian Georgi Markov , in exactly such a fashion , added a great degree of plausibility to the theory . |
| 23 | There was a time when Captain Simcox had fitted comfortably into the officer class — but that was before the war and his marriage to Elizabeth . |
| 24 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 25 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 26 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 27 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 28 | This was be this was er er there was a ceremonial parade when we stood down but this was er erm something that like that the town in recognition of the Home Guard Cos when the Home Guard was stood down it was a national er a national standing down so everybody all over the country er everybody in the country there 'd be a er a parade of some sort but this was for the Walsall detachment of the South Staffs Home Guard that was invited to , to the town hall for er a reception , it was quite it stood in re er I still can remember about it quite quite something to look back on that was really . |
| 29 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 30 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |