Example sentences of "but there were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 2 | Events after 1969 shows that Nixon intended to continue the use of America 's great influence and power ; but there were to be no more Vietnams . |
| 3 | Smith and Cusack then had shots blocked in another goalmouth scramble , but there were to be no more real goal attempts by Darlington after that . |
| 4 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 5 | This still held good under Henry III and Edward I. But there were at least two means whereby the un-welcome connotations of homage for the king-duke of Aquitaine could be made more acceptable . |
| 6 | The Germans announced only one hundred and eighty casualties but there were at least twelve hundred German military personnel and six hundred civilians including one hundred and twenty Poles . |
| 7 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 8 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 9 | Hermite had presumably gambled on Smith 's being the only entry for the competition , but there were in fact two others . |