Example sentences of "was [art] [noun] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More dramatic still was the rise in customs duties . |
| 2 | Modern rods are lighter and easier to control but , every angler is equipped with one , not just the elite or the inventive as was the case in times past . |
| 3 | This was the case in places such as Leicester , Nottingham , and Southampton . |
| 4 | But it was the change in amounts of public money spent on education that was most important . |
| 5 | Mr McIntyre said the development at Hafton House was the turnaround in fortunes the community had been waiting for since the Holy Loch US Navy base was closed last March . |
| 6 | This was the pattern in wetlands all over the country until the Reformation . |
| 7 | Another new phenomenon was the downturn in dealers offering works fresh out of the salerooms . |
| 8 | We now know that this was the condition in galeaspids where paired nasal sacs opened into median duct and the duct itself communicated with the pharynx . |
| 9 | Another aggravating factor was the breakdown in talks in early May between the government and the guerrillas of URNG , the Guatemalan Revolutionary National Union . |
| 10 | We observed an inverse relationship between Ca 2 + and pH whether the change in Ca 2 + and pH was the result in variations in CO 2 tensions or to added HCl or NaOH . |
| 11 | Yet the major achievement of the Nixon period was the improvement in relations with the Communist powers through the policy of " d e tente " , the deliberate lowering of tension . |
| 12 | Lack of trust was the killer in relationships , he 'd said earlier . |
| 13 | So there was always that tendency in our members minds you know to refer to various districts and er earlier in my submissions I did say that there was a disparity in earnings , especially between the Scotland and England er to , to something like seven percent if not even more than that in certain undertakings . |
| 14 | The idea is that there was a swing in attitudes among rank and file unionists away from an acceptance of a number of necessary constraints on wage increases — an attitude strongly influenced by pre-war experience of high unemployment and postwar economic control — to rising expectations of wage increases as part and parcel of the much vaunted ethos of high and sustainable economic growth . |
| 15 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 16 | Its survival depended on the generosity and good nature of the Secretary whose honorarium in 1933 was a year in arrears ! |
| 17 | Underlying this increased union activity was a change in women 's consciousness : in their perception of their jobs , their place in society and their role as trade unionists . |
| 18 | Despite the extent of mortality in the first onset of the plague ( and the evidence of heriot payments on the Winchester manors shows a death-rate there of at least 50 per cent ) , wages did not increase startlingly , and until about 1370 there was a rise in rents which corresponded with that in prices ( 60 ) . |
| 19 | At the waiting-room door there was a man in shirt-sleeves fanning himself with a straw hat . |
| 20 | Now Diego was a man in years , and his strength had passed from him , so that he could not take vengeance , and he retired to his home to dwell there in solitude and lament over his dishonour . |
| 21 | Leese was a vet by trade , but no ordinary vet , for he was a specialist in camels , having spent twenty years in India and Africa studying their diseases . |
| 22 | There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang . |
| 23 | It was a woman in sun-glasses , the collar of her short , smart coat turned up against the morning mist . |
| 24 | The Kinskýs manufactured glass for instance , and one of the Wallensteins was a pioneer in textiles . |
| 25 | Harsh words and animosity persisted for a year or so but by 1851 there was a thaw in relations between the London school and the Royal College . |
| 26 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 27 | It is not as if that period was a failure in terms of personal relationships but it was very hard work to build up those relationships . |
| 28 | Durkin struck up an acquaintance with him — told him he was a traveller in ladies ’ underwear . |
| 29 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 30 | She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals . |