Example sentences of "[art] [noun] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 2 | To the anatomists who worked in the museum or the dissecting room , processes that could only be observed in the field were of little interest . |
| 3 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 4 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 5 | I did n't know whether he meant simply , look ; or that the lamps were in some way symbolic of the elect . |
| 6 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 7 | The polytechnics were from this point onwards to have greater opportunities for development than other colleges , as a result of the operation of two factors . |
| 8 | The problems that Sterling faced in recovering the aircraft were at some times almost insurmountable . |
| 9 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 10 | Johnson thought they ‘ remained convinced that the umpires were on some kind of personal mission to upset them ’ . |
| 11 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 12 | Possibly the contras were in that category , but possibly not . |
| 13 | Miss Armstrong said the defendants were in some way prodding the woman from behind she swung round as if to hit the children with her bag and they ran off . |
| 14 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
| 15 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 16 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 17 | But the stations were in many respects designed to avoid these encounters across class and racial boundaries as much as possible . |
| 18 | Neither Coleridge nor the Wordsworths were in any doubt that ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ was a work of great power and originality , a poem , as Coleridge later said , which could not be imitated . |
| 19 | I it 's only , th the attacks were against those people who abused the system not the system . |
| 20 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 21 | After 2200 and before 0100 , 217 ( 26.8% ) of the visits were to children aged under 5 years whereas only 110 ( 14.2% ) of the visits later in the night were to this age group ( χ 2 =37.47 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 22 | Most of the major provisions relating to the charter were in any case implemented only at the discretion of member governments . |
| 23 | ‘ If you knew the batteries were in this cupboard what were you mooching in the bedroom for ? ’ |
| 24 | During the short period of political troubles between the Old and Middle Kingdoms solar and Osirian ideas of the afterlife were to some extent merged and there occurred a democratisation in funerary beliefs . |
| 25 | With all this ‘ they ’ who made the Smoke were in some way concerned . |
| 26 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 27 | The pilchards were in that week , and the wives and daughters of Polruan were busy all day , gutting , salting and packing the fish . |
| 28 | The house was bounded on its Culver Street frontage by Invicta Terrace — a row of thirteen identical dwellings having two rooms and a scullery downstairs and three bedrooms on the first floor , though none of the rooms were of any size . |
| 29 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 30 | I had the dubious pleasure , after Second Reading , of trying to pilot the House of Lords reform Bill through the House many years ago , when we found that the divisions were on both sides of the House and any idea that one could timetable or guillotine soon went out of the window . |