Example sentences of "this [was/were] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 2 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 3 | This was no doubt Giovanna aroused from her siesta . |
| 4 | His students thought he 'd finally flipped and started telling fairy stories , but this was no fairy story , this was a real Gothic Horror . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but this was no sheep dog . |
| 6 | This was no gossamer kiss . |
| 7 | This was no PR prank but just a genuine and touching gesture by Campese . |
| 8 | This was no constituency battle-axe . |
| 9 | This was no soccer match won by three goals nor a race won by three seconds . |
| 10 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 11 | This was no peasant revolution , but an insurrection led by the intelligentsia of the new middle classes ( those professional groups whom the Enlightenment aristocrats despised as base and usurers ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ she said , ‘ you did know this was a fever hospital , did n't you ? |
| 13 | The result of this was a surprise telephone call from Jenny herself suggesting that we should call a meeting . |
| 14 | For geographers , of course , this was a fieldwork exercise in the great tradition of Vidal de la Blache , Elisée Reclus and Patrick Geddes , with his concept of the ‘ Valley Section ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Correct me if I 'm wrong , ’ Merrill said sweetly , ‘ but I was under the impression that this was a rush job . ’ |
| 16 | The shop assistant explained that this was a manufacturing problem and had nothing to do with them . |
| 17 | Her jewels , since this was a Court ball , consisted of the Crown diamonds , including the famous tiara . |
| 18 | This was a court society : not in the sense sometimes imputed to the ancien régime of a parade-ground where a despot brought his nobility to heel , but an elite world where within shared conventions political conflict was contained and consensus was continually re-formed and re-enacted . |
| 19 | This was a planners reaction this lunchtime . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought this was a B. Diff , not the North Wall of the Eiger , ’ I said . |
| 21 | Do n't , by the way , be fooled by stickers which say ‘ Complete song texts included ’ , or anything similar — this was a packaging error which Sony has corrected , but some are bound to have slipped the net . |
| 22 | So th this this was a standing engine was it ? |
| 23 | I put it to you that it is unlikely that such widespread invasive tumour arose from one small marker lesion and the surgeon concerned that this was a staging error initially . |
| 24 | For me , this was a second shufti , for I had visited Jordan almost forty years before . |
| 25 | The audience , their minds gone blank , stared craftily at Dr McNab wondering whether this was a conjuring trick in which he took advantage of their stupidity . |
| 26 | The merits of the plaintiff 's objections to the means of valuation do not appear from the report , and did not need to , because this was a striking-out application under RSC Ord 18 , r19 , which allows no evidence to be heard about the case that the plaintiff wished to make . |
| 27 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |
| 28 | This was the real reminder that this was a sex beast who had been caught . |
| 29 | In view of Richard 's affection for his mother , this was a trump card . |
| 30 | I 'm sure this was a typing error but it did confuse an excellent article . |