Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we do n't really actually have any schools si I mean schools of psychology were a thing of the fifties really , there 's no identifiable school of psychol |
| 2 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 3 | Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians , who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries , coral , scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries , later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers , by the twelfth dynasty . |
| 4 | It would be reasonable to assume that the considerable changes that took place in Britain were a result of these large-scale confiscations . |
| 5 | Among the organizations which had put pen to paper were the Farmers Union of Wales , the Somerset Community Health Council and the regional Youth Hostels Association . |
| 6 | The average income in Allegheny West , for example , in 1980 was 35 per cent of the city average ( and this represented a decline on 1970 ) , yet house prices at sale were the highest in the city in 1983–84 . |