Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the 426 was Imelda Marcos , widow of the former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos . |
| 2 | Some groups of the dissatisfied were influenced by the Manichaean teachings which came from the east of Europe after the Second Crusade ( 1147 ) and were transmitted along the trade routes to the towns of north Germany and Lombardy . |
| 3 | There were several types of plan used for villas , and the grandest were made in the form of an open square with the buildings forming four sides of an open courtyard . |
| 4 | Some of the boys in the district were nice enough , but the nicest were too young for their years , while the others were alarmingly precocious . |
| 5 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 6 | He got one back on us at the 15th to put him three shots behind again , so the 17th was going to be a crucial hole . |
| 7 | Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day . |
| 8 | The airstream was still generally mild and the 17th was one of the best days with pleasant sunshine and temperatures around 14C in many places . |
| 9 | There were pockets of disaffection in other parts of the country , amongst Anglicans and even Quakers , but these were thin on the ground ; the memories of the 1680s were still too powerful to make many people seriously wish to see the Stuarts back on the throne again . |
| 10 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 11 | Whilst coffins of this type were produced for vault and brick-lined shaft deposit they were also required for intramural earth-cut graves ; one such example from the 1820s was discovered during the excavations at St Mary 's Church , Little Ilford , Essex in 1984 . |
| 12 | The ranks of the discontented were also swelled by returning soldiers who found things less rosy than they had hoped . |
| 13 | The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry . |
| 14 | But the elder Piggott went out of bounds off the tee and the 15th was lost through bunker trouble . |
| 15 | The 15th was the longest hole at 580 yards , although not so formidable as the 8th where ‘ fences are utilised as hazards , and there are several trees stumps ’ . |
| 16 | Up to 1950 , said the authors of Social Trends 20 , the respectable were never in debt . |
| 17 | The survey also showed , however , that the MPs strongly supported the principle of extending VAT to fuel , so long as the needy were protected . |
| 18 | She did n't respond to allopathic painkillers , developed vomiting and diarrhoea and then had a good response to Arsenicum Album LM4 but having recovered from the acute was experiencing some return of anxiety symptoms . |
| 19 | The problem of the poorest was that they could not afford such rents as would bring an adequate return for builders and property-owners , unless they were crammed at very high density in properly which received minimal repair . |
| 20 | If the greatest and richest in the land were exempted from the indignity of assessment , so many of the poorest were simply overlooked that every list ended up short of about one-third of the men it should have included , and since almost all of these were worth less than £2 the general level of wealth is made to look higher than it really was . |
| 21 | Although there was a slight shift in income distribution — from the top half of income earners to the bottom half — the poorest were not the beneficiaries . |
| 22 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 23 | This had generally taken three forms , of which the largest was remittances to their families by the large number of Palestinians from the territories working in the Gulf and elsewhere . |
| 24 | Six in all , the largest was hung in 1635 and recast in 1949 . |
| 25 | The Archbishop held other considerable estates in the county , of which the largest was the Manor of South Malling , a solid block of land stretching from the Ouse outside Lewes to the Kent border . |
| 26 | The smallest fish was 13″ long and the largest was 17″ body length . |
| 27 | The largest was Germany 's with 400 employees . |
| 28 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
| 29 | Although more than 40 camps were revealed to have existed , the largest was at Lovech in northern Bulgaria . |
| 30 | Developments the other side of the globe meant that the B-70 was becoming obsolete even before it was built . |