Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were under a bit of pressure in the second half but it was our fault . |
| 2 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 3 | After McCoist 's spectacular diving header , Eric Cantona finally beat Goram — in the 85th minute but it was all too late . |
| 4 | The Playnes used it as a cloth mill in the 19th century but it was also a saw mill . |
| 5 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 6 | Leeds also had the ball in the net with the last kick of the first half but it was disallowed for no apparent reason . |
| 7 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 8 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 9 | Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years . |
| 10 | It looks like an average piece of As bond at first sight but it is n't actually a standard size at all . |
| 11 | I 'd felt a bit sticky and dirty first thing but it 'd worn off now . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 13 | This is a small amount in relation to our subscriptions which reached one million pounds for the first time but it does pose problems . |
| 14 | Antisemitism was not the creation of the nineteenth century but it revived in intensity about 1880 . |
| 15 | The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it . |
| 16 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 17 | Sea bathing developed in the mid-eighteenth century but it still remained somewhat select until the railway arrived . |
| 18 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 19 | The market 's price-earnings multiple was 16 last night but it would drop below 14 if that increase in earnings really happens . |
| 20 | See I do n't feel as I did last night but it 's still there , you know I just take some more tablets like , you know . |
| 21 | He thought about it last week but it 's pretty hush hush I think . |
| 22 | they missed it last week but it 's supposed to be correct . |
| 23 | When this matter was discussed at housing committee , I believe it 's only last week but it seems a lot longer ago , I spoke at some length about the errors and fallacies in the report arguing against a case that officers have put forward , pointing out mistakes and erroneous conclusions that seem to have been drawn from some very flimsy evidence . |
| 24 | If asked to recall a date such a person will proceed by inference rather than by a direct introspective search , e.g. ‘ it can not be next week but it must be within the next month ’ or ‘ this kind of event is always on a Tuesday ’ and so on . |
| 25 | They had hoped to be back at the beginning of next season but it now looks unlikely to be until half-way through it . |
| 26 | Mr Foster said : ‘ It is true that we have not settled our home venue for next season but it will either be still at McMullen Road or another venue . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The 1902 bridge over the River Rheidol was passed for service last year but it had reached the end of its working life . |
| 29 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 30 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |