Example sentences of "['s] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Pinkney 's was a chocolate layer cake with cherries , angelica leaves , and pink sugar roses on it . |
| 2 | Mrs Doran 's was a Victoria sponge with toasted almonds and walnut halves carefully arranged on the top . |
| 3 | Mrs Clancy 's was a marble cake frosted white and decorated with chocolate curls and chocolate creams . |
| 4 | Mrs Yardley 's was a plain sponge , but had been lacily covered with swirls and dollops and curlicues of golden buttercream icing dotted with candied violets . |
| 5 | Tortured between the city and the savage , Eliot 's was a nightmare world . |
| 6 | Sir Leon 's was a more dangerous rebuttal . |
| 7 | Al-Shiraa 's was a small piece , about the clandestine visit by McFarlane to Tehran in May . |
| 8 | Marie Grubbe 's was a story of love . |
| 9 | Payne 's was a splendid effort , for he three-putted the first from 12ft . |
| 10 | Tucker 's was a corner shop on Hoomey 's way home . |
| 11 | The hairdresser 's was a feat of great dexterity and he revelled in his prowess . |
| 12 | Dad 's was a carver and Mum 's had shortened legs because , being only 4 feet 10 inches tall , the lower chair was a great help when she was nursing us as babies . |
| 13 | Of an evening , Eggy 's was a popular rendezvous for those of us off-duty . |
| 14 | His orientation is also done in the old style ’ , whereas Green 's was a scientific effort . |
| 15 | I have to say that neither piece is vintage Schumann , but when the old magic really starts to work ( as in the ‘ Gloria ’ and ‘ Agnus Dei ’ of the Requiem ) , one is left in no doubt that Schumann 's was a creative mind of the very first order . |
| 16 | Tchakarov 's was a great talent , and his recent death at only forty two a tragedy , but his true memorial is to be found in the earlier issues of this series . |
| 17 | Mail continues to pour in much faster than Cats and I can answer it , and among last week 's was a book from lovely Katie Boyle and a letter saying , ‘ You 're not dying , Marti , read this book . ’ |
| 18 | Wordsworth 's was a face which did not assign itself to any class . |
| 19 | The siting of the Bull Inn on the line of the figure in 1594 shows that the belief persisted and the location of the Bull and Swan in St. Martin 's was a conscious eighteenth-century reference to the tradition , being positioned on the line of the front leg . |
| 20 | ‘ The time I spent with the O'Brien 's was a great education . |
| 21 | St Michael 's was a older building , almost entirely constructed of red brick . |
| 22 | Victor 's was a smart brasserie and bar sandwiched between two elegant boutiques in a narrow back street off the rue Pierre-Charron . |
| 23 | Hooker 's was a name which could hardly fail to be included on the list of those whom the Church wished to commemorate in 1980 . |
| 24 | Even in physique they were very much alike , both being thick in the shoulders and almost of the same colouring , except that Joe 's hair showed a black sheen whereas Harry 's was a dark brown , thick matt . |
| 25 | Among the highlights of the two sales , and selling well above its £10,000–15,000 estimate at Christie 's was a Sevres soup plate from the Catherine II service , ordered in 1776 and consisting of 797 pieces of which seventy-two were soup-plates . |
| 26 | Kluck 's was a fateful decision , and Galliéni , studying maps and reports in his Paris headquarters , saw at once the manner in which to deliver a decisive blow . |
| 27 | Great Britain 's was a peculiar case . |
| 28 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 29 | Her mother spent most of her afternoons resting and Molly 's was a lonely childhood . |
| 30 | The same blond hair , except that Tessa Latham 's was a little longer , had a little more curl . |