Example sentences of "but [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 2 | About fifty people attempted to gain entrance , but were held back by the police . |
| 3 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 4 | Ards enjoyed a record-breaking unbeaten run recently but were dumped out of the Wilkinson Sword League Cup semi-final by Coleraine during the week and they may find Frankie Parks ' cup rollercoaster has gathered too much steam . |
| 5 | Police and troops made an attempt to recapture Red House on July 29 , but were ordered back by the Prime Minister who , along with several other hostages , had been wired with explosive charges . |
| 6 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 7 | A weekly list of horses to follow HUFOOF : Had her stands-side rivals beaten in a 24-runner sprint at Haydock on Saturday but was kept out of the frame by the finishers on the far side of the track . |
| 8 | Mark said : ‘ I kicked the front door in and tried to get upstairs , but was beaten back by the smoke . |
| 9 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 10 | It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . |
| 11 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 12 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 13 | He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement . |
| 14 | At the same time a bomb set fire to a sofa in a furniture store — but was put out by the store 's sprinkler system . |
| 15 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |
| 16 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 17 | The cheapest , the Pocket Gem , worked well but was let down by the software . |
| 18 | Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival . |
| 19 | Bully barked and tried to put his paws on her chest , but was held back by the man . |
| 20 | One son , for example , was sometimes not allowed to sleep in the house , but was left out in the garden at night . |