Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In St Thomas 's , the riverside parish which contained Fisher Row , the older families stayed where they were ; amongst the most stable groups were the bargemen and fishermen . |
| 2 | Mailed and heavily armed knights were an upper military class , with associated servants who undertook the many tasks needed to maintain both knight , horse and arms , before and after a conflict . |
| 3 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said the withdrawal of the Cubans from Angola and the Namibian settlement were an opportunity to end the fighting . |
| 4 | The four banned loyalist groups were the Ulster Freedom Fighters , the Ulster Volunteer Force , the Red Hand Commandos , and the UDA . |
| 5 | At their highest level the internal politics of the European States were the politics of monarchy . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The Fifties were the years of its vendetta with show business , which began in 1947 with the jailing of ‘ the Hollywood Ten ’ , writers who held that their political opinions were no business of the Committee , relying on the First Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees freedom of thought and belief . |
| 8 | It appeared that technical methods were the most important factor in determining organisational structure and in setting the tone of human relationship inside the firm . ’ |
| 9 | Sore knees were a small part of her penance . |
| 10 | The most receptive sectors were the market women and factory workers . |
| 11 | Its leading European supporters were the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 12 | Rather , Serbian royalist Chetniks were the real butchers . |
| 13 | Between 1967 and 1973 ( the last year in which rural districts were a distinct administrative category ) , the number of council houses built annually in rural areas was almost cut in half , from 35000 to 18000 , while private-sector housing held steady at just over 70000 . |
| 14 | But these awful songs were the soundtracks of our lives : Clair , by Gilbert O'Sullivan ; Bang Bang by B. A. Robertson ; Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep , by Middle of the Road ; Knowing Me Knowing You , by ABBA ; Gon na Make You A Star , by David Essex ; I Wan na Dance Wit Choo , by Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The four-man winners were a team led by the former British champion Tom De La Hunty |
| 17 | Mr Goldring said the only possible candidates were the defendant and staff nurse Morris but the staff nurse was not on duty on 28 March when another child was injected with a massive dose of insulin . |
| 18 | The second expression for which I have traced the origin is ‘ a cock and bull story ’ , which originated in the Bedfordshire village of Stoney Stratford , where the two most popular public houses were The Cock and The Bull . |
| 19 | A refugee mother and her two teenage sons were the founder residents of one of the earliest Christadelphian hostels — Little Thorn , on the Bilton Road in Rugby . |
| 20 | We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before . |
| 21 | The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values . |
| 22 | Profiteering price-hikes , and worsening inequalities between different social groups were the problems which beset Deng 's reform programme . |
| 23 | Among the artisans who contributed to Aarau 's fame in medieval times were the gunsmiths , swordsmiths , cutlers and bell-founders . |
| 24 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Careful study of the map showed him that his house was in neither parish ; it was within the boundary of a parish in which he and a lot of black-face sheep were the only inhabitants . |
| 27 | But there can be little doubt that French styles and French cultural patterns were a dominant influence on the art forms and patronage of English Gothic . |
| 28 | Such doubtful activities were the making of one of the most splendid Catalan fortunes — that of Gaspar de Remisa , who prospered while artisans starved and merchants were ruined . |
| 29 | In these early days the Germans very much followed the Dutch leads ; indeed the regulations introduced in 1980 for restraining traffic in residential roads were a straight translation of those adopted in the Netherlands ' Woonerven . |
| 30 | On 9 February 1986 Premier Moussavi was reported as saying that Saudi and Kuwaiti exports were the main factors in the collapse of prices . |