Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In neither case were the assurances honoured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Direct answers to direct questions of this kind were no part of Charles 's way of life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The remarkable features of this struggle were the extent of violence , the number of urban workers involved , and the outspoken nature of their protests . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Also living in this terrace were the Kellow , Bundy and Cool families . |
| 15 | Around this entrance were a small group of tinkers and pedlars selling brightly coloured ribbons , gloves , plums and green apples . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps the main characteristics of this community were the senses of certainty and order in social life : |
| 20 | Two important stimuli to the search for the right structure for the NHS throughout this period were a concern about effective policy control in the face of professional domination , and anxiety about the extent of inequalities in health between social classes and between regions . |
| 21 | The two most important episodes in public order policing during this period were the CND campaign against cruise missiles in the first half of the decade , and the miners ' strike during 1984/5 ; we will examine each of these in turn . |
| 22 | Terrible neuralgic pains which troubled him throughout this period were the mirror of his inward distress , and the large doses of laudanum he took to relieve his symptoms , a portent for the future . |
| 23 | The main social security policy changes in this period were the introduction in 1965 of earnings-related supplements to sickness and unemployment benefits and of a redundancy payments scheme . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most famous cases of this period were the confrontations at the Saltley coal depot in Birmingham during the 1972 national coal dispute , at the Grunwick film processing laboratory in London in 1977 and outside the Hadfields private steel works during the 1980 national steel dispute . |
| 25 | Underlying and largely explaining the increasingly difficult position of the French monarchy during this period were the personal characters of the monarchs concerned . |
| 26 | On one side of this room were the Sports Editor and his assistant , Murray Brown , and next to them was a general reporter , Allan Robinson , while in the left corner was Jim Miller , nephew of the Times-Herald owner . |
| 27 | The exceptions in this group were a number of , generally older , users who had been required to attend by their GP . |
| 28 | Another gift were the variorum set of classical authors in one hundred and forty volumes given to Scott by Archibald Constable . |
| 29 | These imposing buildings from another era were the meeting point for elements that the establishment wanted to keep apart . |
| 30 | But , of course , overlaying and underlying this trans-parency were the old tribal and family feuds and enmities which had put most of the followings into the rival camps in the first place . |