Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said the withdrawal of the Cubans from Angola and the Namibian settlement were an opportunity to end the fighting . |
| 2 | Of the pin placing at the 466-yard ninth , where the 144-strong field were a collective 114 over par , Woosnam said : ‘ Whoever did it must have been born with a spanner in his head . ’ |
| 3 | In neither case were the assurances honoured . |
| 4 | The only other customers in the ‘ Ravel ’ that afternoon were a musician with a small Irish fiddle and his companion , a tall skeletal man with the remains of what had once been an extremely fine hat , crammed down over his greasy locks . |
| 5 | Also on that side were the late John Joe Sands , Martin Walsh , the Down team doctor for the past three decades , and Malachy Finnegan , a former President of the College . |
| 6 | Among the other parties each gaining less than 1 per cent of the total vote were the Social Democratic Party ( 0.50 per cent ) ; Centrist Democratic Group ( 0.47 per cent ) ; National Reconstruction Party ( 0.38 per cent ) ; Bratianu Liberal Union ( 0.26 per cent ) ; Romanies ' Democratic Union ( 0.14 per cent ) and the Germans ' Democratic Forum ( 0.14 per cent ) . |
| 7 | Direct answers to direct questions of this kind were no part of Charles 's way of life . |
| 8 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |
| 9 | The British army created a regiment of light infantry in 1757 for scouting duties in North America ; and in the war of the American Revolution troops of this kind were the most effective part of Britain 's forces in the colonies . |
| 10 | The only political figures of importance to be even slightly influenced by ideas of this kind were the Marquis d'Argenson , who controlled French foreign policy , with small practical success , in the years 1744–47 , and perhaps the Comte de Vergennes , who occupied a similar position in 1774 – 87 . |
| 11 | Supreme in this field were the members of another branch of the Titford family , at that time recent arrivals in London from their home in Wylye , Wiltshire . |
| 12 | The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values . |
| 13 | The culprits in this instance were the amalgam of sevens gypsies that gathered under the Warblers banner — including New Zealand sevens internationals Eric Rush and Glen Osborne ( North Harbour ) and the star of the Melrose Sevens , Peter Woods ( Bay of Plenty ) — and the Froggies , a polyglot of French first division players from the Toulouse area . |
| 14 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 15 | The remarkable features of this struggle were the extent of violence , the number of urban workers involved , and the outspoken nature of their protests . |
| 16 | The critics who won the most popular support were a strange trio : a Roman Catholic priest , an elderly doctor , and a rabble-rousing southern politician . |
| 17 | If the interpretation of dog in this sentence were the result of contextual modulation of the general sense , it ought to include reference to , for instance , young females with good eyesight . |
| 18 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 19 | One of those times when you wish that varieties of public screaming were a permitted social outlet without the perpetrator risking , at best , hospitalization and , at worst , incarceration . |
| 20 | This merits test is often expressed by asking the following question : ‘ If this applicant were the private client of a solicitor would he or she be advised to take or defend the action ? ’ |
| 21 | ( 1 ) The provisions of this Act mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below shall apply to licensed canteens , to the holders of licences under this Part of this Act and to their employees and agents as if a licensed canteen were a public house and as if the licence-holder of a canteen were the licence holder of a public house . |
| 22 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 23 | Also living in this terrace were the Kellow , Bundy and Cool families . |
| 24 | Around this entrance were a small group of tinkers and pedlars selling brightly coloured ribbons , gloves , plums and green apples . |
| 25 | However , the most significant obstacles to this plan were the deep trusses of heavy timbers which spanned the roof space at two locations to brace purlins supporting the rafters of each roof-slope ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 26 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 27 | Mutual aid , the practice of religion and social intercourse were the principal activities . |
| 28 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 29 | The group who were the most uncompromising in their attachment to divine and hereditary right were the Nonjurors . |
| 30 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |