Example sentences of "but it was [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have refused , of course , but it was a choice I should n't have forced you to make . ’ |
| 2 | Ever so faintly , but it was a smile none the less . |
| 3 | I daresay it 's dull , being tied to a house and young children , but it was a life you chose , after all , you were so eager to rush into it that you did n't even take your degree . ’ |
| 4 | But it was a man who was standing inside , a policeman . |
| 5 | But it was a haste they paid for dearly in emotional terms . |
| 6 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 7 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 8 | Well , sir , I thought I had only found a cook , but it was a crew I had discovered ! |
| 9 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 10 | Heated pain seemed to be filling her but it was a pain she clung to desperately , a feeling she had never experienced before . |
| 11 | Thus most forest and tundra peoples sacrificed reindeer , but it was a dog which was killed ( and eaten ) by those peoples ( Nanai , Ulcha , Nivkh and Koryak ) who used dog-teams for transport , while the sacrificial animal of the Buryats , Yakuts and other Turkic peoples was the horse . |
| 12 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 13 | I could not remember ever having seen one of his poems in The New Yorker , but it was a magazine I saw only occasionally in those days . |
| 14 | His dark face usually held a cool austereness but it was a severity which , fast as quicksilver , could melt into warmth and charm . |
| 15 | Having a slaughterhouse for his pigs next-door may have been very convenient for Charles , but it was a luxury he was soon to lose : The Frome Turnpike Trustees had decided to drag Frome into the modern world by demolishing Rossiter 's buildings as part of a scheme to widen the road and ease the notorious bottleneck north of the bridge . |
| 16 | He did not amplify nor did Lily ask the nature of that risk , but it was a comment he profoundly believed , an emotion rather than a rational thought . |
| 17 | Its essential features had few clear and unqualified expressions , but it was a civilization which had come to be distinguished from others by the emphasis it placed on the individual , by its increasing separation of social and political institutions , by its material wellbeing , and by its growing rationality . |
| 18 | But it was a torment which had to be seen and analysed . |
| 19 | But it was an American whose vision prompted such grand travel . |
| 20 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 21 | In response to an appeal by the Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger ( USTN ) on May Day 1990 for the introduction of a multiparty system , Mamadou Dagra , the Minister of Civil Service and Labour , said that this was not excluded by Niger 's current political system , but it was an issue which should not be pursued with haste . |
| 22 | But it was an age which saw the slow , sure , and steady progress of social improvement and it was an age of hope , of optimistic belief in the future , unashamed aspiration for better days and better conditions in the world . |
| 23 | SCOTTISH champions Rangers are the undisputed rulers of British soccer but it was an Englishman who engineered the European Cup overthrow of Leeds United . |
| 24 | Yes but it was an aim which I 'm sure I I would , alright alright |
| 25 | The old man 's offer to buy the cottage was tempting , a few thousand pounds could be put to immediate use , but it was an offer he could n't accept . |
| 26 | The architects of Pakistan 's victorious tour were undoubtedly their formidable pacemen , Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis , but it was the batsmen who stole the limelight at the start . |
| 27 | In a discussion on race , Nigel had declared that ‘ we all hate racism ’ , but it was the anti-racists who were stirring up things . |
| 28 | We were aware that there were men among the thickets following us , but it was the monkeys who caused us most trouble . |
| 29 | But it was the Church which really fascinated me . |
| 30 | But it was the peace which people remembered , rather than the quarrel . |