Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , half the cases appeared in one newspaper — the Middlesex Chronicle , a local weekly — while the remainder were in the nationals . |
| 2 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
| 3 | It is not contended that the duty arose out of contract : the contract was between the defendants and Mrs. Walker , and so far as contract is concerned it was to Mrs. Walker the defendants were liable for breach of it . |
| 4 | At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies . |
| 5 | My mother 's business success had continued and the bungalow was in the throes of an ongoing transformation that would only end some five years later , when the Cliff Top Country House Hotel opened its register for bookings . |
| 6 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 7 | In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare . |
| 8 | They were both dressed the same , probably for the same reason , and yet it did n't seem to make any difference because all the action was in the eyes . |
| 9 | Armed or otherwise , the Hooligan was in the headlines . |
| 10 | I quote from the graphic account of the wife of a teacher who suffered a false accusation of this kind : ’ An article about the allegation appeared in heavy type on the front page of the local newspaper and the headline was on the hoardings outside the newsagents . |
| 11 | By the time the interview was over the dogs were all asleep and refused to wake up . |
| 12 | so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from |
| 13 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 14 | The plan was for the financiers to place deals based on the probable impact of the column on the market and then share the profits . |
| 15 | The cutters and machinists were to remain at the club house for another twelve and eighteen months respectively but the plan was for the printers to move immediately into the new premises . |
| 16 | During the 16th century the mill was in the hands of various members of the Hone family , later passing to the clothier , Thomas Tayloe , from whom the mill took one of its best-remembered names . |
| 17 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 18 | The girl was with the children . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I can make out , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the girl was in the fields under our dog-fight , and somebody 's bullets hit her . ’ |
| 20 | The flower named after the explorer was unveiled at the British Rose Festival at Hampton Court where the Queen was among the visitors … the striped bloom is n't unique … but it is unusual … but how they get it remains a well kept secret . |
| 21 | One of the earliest preoccupations of the Council was with the implications , for the curriculum and for teaching , of the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen , urged powerfully in the Crowther Report and now by its successor , the Newsom Report , published in 1963 . |
| 22 | Caroline Willbourne , a London barrister specialising in family law , said decriminalisation of sexual offences within the family where the offender admitted the abuse was in the interests of child victims . |
| 23 | The firing hole of the kiln was temporarily blocked with bricks and clay and the control of the burn was in the hands of the ganger . |
| 24 | They had no estates of any size there , and although the king 's representative in Bordeaux and a number of high officials were English , the government of the duchy was in the hands of the Gascons and places in the Church were filled by Gascon prelates . |
| 25 | The bills of lading covering the cargo were in the hands of a Madame Bihi who was the accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to the United Nations Organisations in Geneva . |
| 26 | The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself . |
| 27 | The recital was in the grounds of an historic castle , in keeping with the growing fashion for outdoor opera . |
| 28 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 29 | By the beginning of the 19th century the site was in the hands of Thomas England but shortly afterwards was leased and run by members of the Austin family . |
| 30 | After all , the only tradition of homosexuality in the town was in the cottages , and stories in the local papers about court cases for ‘ gross indecency ’ indicated that they were well patronized . |