Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , most of the Board were and the rest of us were persuaded that it would be no bad thing , without , I confess , being precisely clear what we meant by that blessed word . |
| 2 | Oh no if the if the if the if the if the owners well they were privately owned then the mines were and if they did n't want to er get the coal out you did n't work . |
| 3 | I could n't remember where my form room was or where the toilets were and what was the Headteacher 's name ? |
| 4 | This showed where the money was and where economic development was occurring . |
| 5 | When Mr Archer 's 20-year-old assistant , Lisa Pratt , came on the scene Miller demanded to know where the takings were and she was then punched in the chest and ribs . |
| 6 | From the outset the wide impact of the ban was and anticipate , the experiment has given me opportunity for it to be tested on the ground so that future decision can be taken objectively . |
| 7 | It is said that a British ornithologist asked his aborigine guide what the birds were and the guide said , in aboriginese , ‘ good food ’ : I suppose we 're lucky he did n't say ‘ birds , you dickhead ’ . |
| 8 | in for it , drinking at and last year the coincidence was and there was a horse in the race called the year the , the wi the winner a woman |
| 9 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 10 | Lucy glanced at Josie , wondering what the story was and what her place in it might be . |
| 11 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 12 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 13 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 14 | In the local elections their share of the vote was and they did very very well . |
| 15 | The debate about what the WEA was and should be doing had particular point in 1953 , the year the government initiated its own enquiry into adult education . |
| 16 | There was a struggle for the polytechnics to define , in private and in public , what the characteristics of the polytechnics were and should remain . |
| 17 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 18 | The clergy were and still are in a special position , holding power over the laity because of it . |
| 19 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 20 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 21 | In her nacreous haze , Chesarynth was trying to puzzle out who the speakers were and what the boy Karel whoever he was — had done to raise such spikes of hatred in the old woman 's tone . |
| 22 | I looked round to see how far away the horse was and saw there were two galloping towards me . |
| 23 | Well there was thousands killed see the infantry was and there were loads more all round you see ? |
| 24 | Apparently she then picked herself up and in fact ran from the scene but Mrs did n't stop and did n't make enquiries as to who the girl was and neither was the matter reported by her to the police in due course . |
| 25 | The movements were and still are practised because they are designed to display the body as it moves to the best advantage from the audience 's point of view . |
| 26 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 27 | The uniforms were , the equipment was and yet it worked , it really worked , how efficient I suppose when you judge it from modern standards , I do n't know . |
| 28 | The question was and always will be , what shall we do with the time we have saved ? |
| 29 | She knew what the question was and her eyes held no fear , only need . |
| 30 | ‘ The rod with the smelt on soon went again and I did not realise how big the fish was and steered it around the swim for a minute to break the ice . |