Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stones in the bladder were a very common ailment in middle life , and something for which my first aid training had given me no preparation . |
| 2 | Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … |
| 3 | On either side were a series of editing suites , visible through small windows in the doors . |
| 4 | Instead , his side were a shambles again , a disgrace . |
| 5 | On one side were the Marxist commandantes , puppets of a giant colonizing power , in their camouflage fatigues and their designer sunglasses , carrying foreign ideology like a loathsome bacillus ; on the other the indigenous peasants , barefoot , in straw hats , driven to the point of taking up arms . |
| 6 | In front of them to one side were the CEGB representatives , led by Lord Silsoe with streamlined efficiency . |
| 7 | Farrs fronted Brown Street ; on the left hand side were the sliding glass doors to the showroom , just large enough to take one vehicle . |
| 8 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |
| 9 | On the other side were the proponents of a new " music of the future " ( Zukunftsmusik ) , represented by Berlioz , Liszt , and above all , Wagner , whose restless chromatic explorations , culminating at this period in Tristan und Isolde ( finished in 1859 ) and the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1854–74 ) , most radically undermined traditional diatonic stability . |
| 10 | On the catastrophists ' side were the Tories arid the Church ( the episcopalian Church of England , of course ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 13 | On the north side were the training huts , one for chemical and bacteriological agents , one for firearms and explosives and one for ideological instruction . |
| 14 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 15 | They did not demand a search for set words ; they demanded instead that a disposition be scrutinized to see if it satisfied the law of trusts ( the principles of benefit and intention were the minimal requirements ) . |
| 16 | He hated prisons , even the so-called modern set-ups where the relations between prisoner and prison-officer were the best that could be hoped for , and violence was minimal . |
| 17 | Its principal avowed aim was to give legislative form to the decision , contrary to the recommendation of the Law Commission , 46 and thereby allow the parties in these ‘ tragic cases ’ the dignity of a decree of nullity so that , if thought fit , provision for ancillary relief could be made by the court , and the unsavoury examination of their sexuality , rendered necessary if the only recourse were a declaration of status , could be avoided . |
| 18 | The two main issues in the Miyagi contest were the state of the country 's economy , and the current spate of scandals surrounding the Miyazawa government . |
| 19 | Morality and pacifist emotion were the driving forces behind much of the uninformed criticism of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 20 | Other events which contributed to the decline of the madeira wine industry were the American Civil War ( which meant a temporary loss of the American market ) and the opening of the Suez Canal ( which meant a reduction in the number of ships calling at Madeira ) . |
| 21 | When I read Coal News after our last coal debate , it appeared as though the only people to speak on behalf of the mining industry were the hon. Member for Sherwood and his hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) . |
| 22 | As Annette Kuhn has argued , Hollywood as a ‘ dream-machine ’ under the studio system worked as a configuration of forces acting together , of which cinematic characteristics , as well as the institutional framework of economic structures and power relations in the industry were an important part . |
| 23 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 24 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 25 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 26 | Andromeda were a hard rockin' psychedelic trio who managed to put out one impressive LP on RCA before nose-diving into obscurity . |
| 27 | Large companies are facing price increases averaging 20 p.c. this year and say that efforts to cushion the rises through a recent Nuclear Electric auction were a flop . |
| 28 | Of course , environment , diet and indulgence contributed to the ill-health of many workers , and hours of labour were a major aggravation . |
| 29 | Wages for unskilled labour were the lowest , being significantly below even shop workers who are generally recognised to be among the most intensely exploited ( except that their hours were much longer ) . |
| 30 | Politically , the leaders of organized labour were the most determined campaigners on the pensioners ' behalf . |