Example sentences of "[verb] were [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main cultures which Spengler analysed were the Apollinian ( Classical ) , Magian ( Eastern ) and Faustian ( Western ) . |
| 2 | Among those whom Collor retained were the three ministers with responsibility for military portfolios and the Economy Minister Marcílio Marques Moreira , who was identified with the IMF-approved economic austerity programme . |
| 3 | It does raise a very important matter because in the B C C I inquiry , it was quite obvious er that parts of Price Waterhouse were n't fully aware of what other parts of Pri Price Waterhouse were doing and indeed worse than that and in fairness to Price Waterhouse , some of the regulators in different parts of the world did n't know what each other w w were doing and the only people that did know what was happening were the principals behind B C C I who exploited that situation . |
| 4 | I drank too much at dinner and missed whole stretches of conversation , noting at one point with tipsy clarity that people who could converse were a great boon to the inarticulate who yet , when in the company of their tongue-tied fellows , felt it essential to say something . |
| 5 | Well they would buy Were a a breed of men , as far as I know , used to wear what they called moleskin trousers . |
| 6 | The machines used were an older one , the LICOR LI3100 Area Meter ( LICOR Inc. , Lincoln , Nebraska , U.S.A. ) and a later machine which became available during the project , the Delta-T Area Meter System with high resolution camera ( Delta-T Devices Ltd. , Burwell , Cambridge ) . |
| 7 | The paddles they used were the very narrow bladed ones like the Inuit sea kayak paddles . |
| 8 | Main types used were the Airspeed Oxford , Avro Anson , Fairey Battle and the Northrop Nomad . |
| 9 | In the upper panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were the 47 bp Mam I- Sfa NI fragment for the wt- , -65 , -68 , -72 and -73 mutant promoters and the 52 bp Mam I- Sau 3A fragment for the -75 mutant promoter . |
| 10 | Symptom measures used were the Birleson Depression Inventory , Revised Children 's Manifest Anxiety Scale , and the Impact of Events Scale ( IES ) . |
| 11 | His hall was built on a north-to-south axis , so that the wind blew through it constantly , keeping the air fresh ; but the odours of the spices and scented oils he used were the only ones a visitor might smell . |
| 12 | The instructions for the risk rating and the scale used were the same as those used for Study 2 . |
| 13 | The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter . |
| 14 | For statistical analysis , the tests used were the Bartlett test for homogenicity of variance , Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance for effects in time and comparison of differences between control and groups treated with scavengers , and the Mann-Whitney test for individual comparison of the group means . |
| 15 | First to suffer were the relatives of those who had been kidnapped by the Joint Command . |
| 16 | Among the units most heavily attacked were the 120,000-strong Republican Guard formations — Iraq 's most effective troops — which were entrenched near the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 17 | This sort of first-hand evidence from the children reveals how utterly distorted were the verdicts of groups such as the National Federation of Women 's Institutes when , after citing highly selective and impressionistic reports from their local workers — which tended to repeat ad nauseam the ‘ fish and chips ’ allegations and held the evacuee mother up to ridicule — they concluded : |
| 18 | This is because the need to reform was felt to arise from the normal attitude of aristocrats in the Germanic world that churches which they had helped to establish were a part of their material property . |
| 19 | The changes proposed were the ones that Ken Clarke and later William Waldegrave took through . |
| 20 | So varied were the locations — from Cornwall to Wales , from Somerset to Kent , that most could be discounted . |
| 21 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood Watch The only instances reported were the break-ins on two cars . |
| 23 | More than twenty four hours after the incident , firemen are still making the building safe , but they 've denied suggestions that the chemicals involved were a serious potential hazard.Julie Dolphin reports . |
| 24 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 25 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 26 | Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered . |
| 27 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 28 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 29 | Other objects found were a purse and pottery and coffin nails . |
| 30 | ( One of our correspondents serving with 1st Armoured Division reports a visit to 1st Bn. , Staffordshire Regt. , in which he knew a company from 1st Grenadier Guards was serving under command ; the first men he encountered were a Milan crew — from 1st Royal Green Jackets … ) |