Example sentences of "but the [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sovereignty was formally transferred on 27 December ; but the occasion was unlike the independence celebrated in India and Pakistan on 15 August 1947 and in Burma on 4 January 1948 . |
| 2 | I looked to see if he cast a shadow but the sun was in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 4 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 5 | But the cyclist was under no obligation to give the constable his name and address , and although the constable is perfectly at liberty to ask his questions , the citizen is under no obligation to answer them . |
| 6 | It was not the lead , but the character was in every episode , and had the advantage of ageing from week to week . |
| 7 | But the pope was in the same position as everyone else in having no clear procedure for reaching a decision . |
| 8 | ‘ But the brother-in-law was in the same line of business . ’ |
| 9 | Larwood was bowling orthodox off theory to a slip field , but the crowd was in no mood to differentiate between off theory and leg theory . |
| 10 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 11 | No but the street was in the wrong |
| 12 | She then tried to tear the plans in half , but the paper was of a strong variety . |
| 13 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 14 | The dying Pitt , rejoicing in the House of Lords that the grave had not closed over him before he could protest against ‘ the dismemberment of this noble empire ’ , was a tragic figure ; but the tragedy was in the absurdity of the protest . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's tough , but the writing was on the wall once I was 12th man . |
| 16 | The branch line was not immediately axed by Beeching , but the writing was on the wall , and on 3 January 1972 the last passenger train left Swanage ‘ from a station little more than a ghost ’ . |
| 17 | It had greater success in the year 1912 which followed , but the writing was on the wall . |
| 18 | By tonight the terrorists ' toll was seventeen , but the city was over the water , Belfast , and even the politicians were running out of words to express their horror . |