Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to regret its disappearance and looked at the chalk outline marked by Massingham on the floor as if this were a poor substitute for the real thing . |
| 2 | If this were a simple conflict between attack and escape , it would have led to threat displays . |
| 3 | If this were a simple and one-way movement , the answer would lie in ensuring that the record of achievement is up to date and intelligible , that assessment records are accurate and that the pastoral record , if any , is both just and constructive . |
| 4 | If this were a serious move to protect the environment from fuel pollution , then the Government would have been rather more convincing were it to use the new VAT revenue for a national programme of home insulation . |
| 5 | He came forward from behind his desk and held out his hand as if this were a first meeting . |
| 6 | How , if this were a complete picture of the League 's activities , did it survive at all ? |
| 7 | No , no , not that one , Doug , this were a big woman , were n't she ? |
| 8 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 9 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 10 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 11 | He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal . |
| 12 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 13 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 14 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 15 | That , I concluded , was because , by comparison with the French , the English were a joyless lot and confined sex to the obligations of the marriage bed . |
| 16 | Two schools which opened their doors to deaf children in the 1890s were the Royal Cross School , Preston , and the Hugh Bell School , Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | The ‘ 80s were a desperate , depressing time . |
| 18 | So popular were the proscribed celebrations that it proved quite impossible to eradicate them completely . |
| 19 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 20 | The canal boatmen who came to live in Fisher Row upon the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 were a colourful group with distinctive dress , customs and style of boat decoration which had been developed in the previous two decades upon the canals of the Midlands . |
| 21 | The French were a practical nation . |
| 22 | ‘ The French were a dirty lot . |
| 23 | The French were a favourite target , and the new popular press was instrumental in crystallizing xenophobic imagery . |
| 24 | You felt , like Victorine , that the French were the best . |
| 25 | The French were the first to object : they still had qualms about German rearmament . |
| 26 | Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help . |
| 27 | His 12 strikes in the 1st Division in 1989–90 were an important feature of Palace 's creditable showing there , while our fans will of course always remember that it was Mark 's crashing drive at the start of the second half that began our recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and , ultimately , helped to take us to Wembley . |
| 28 | Kazakhstan on Oct. 25 and Kirghizia on Oct. 30 were the last of the 15 union republics to issue sovereignty declarations . |
| 29 | Many of them were initiated independently by the schools , and some were a direct consequence of national legislation , but the Authority 's own profile in this area continued to be remarkably restrained . |
| 30 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |