Example sentences of "were [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Mr Handford heard , however , were the eerie sounds which seemed to be a faint moaning and chuckling coming from the nearby wood . |
| 2 | Certainly then in early modern England the ways of conceptualizing sexuality and sexual deviance were fundamentally different from ours , as were the perceived relations between sexuality and subjectivity . |
| 3 | The long-term reasons were the perceived weaknesses of the existing structure of local government in relation to socio-economic geography , size of authorities , and complex division of powers . |
| 4 | The results were beneficent , but less well handled were the reverse migration procedures ordered by Pomgol on 15 March 1922 . |
| 5 | All three were the predestined victims of capitalism , though , as we have seen , neither the peasantry nor the country-based social hierarchy which rested on its backs were in any immediate danger of collapse . |
| 6 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 7 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 8 | These were the critical years , but it is arguable that this was the critical place . |
| 9 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 10 | But the notion that these raw recruits were the critical ingredient is open to doubt . |
| 11 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 12 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 13 | Those were the dangerous moments . |
| 14 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 15 | Outside were the familiar roofs and flats , the chimneys and aerials . |
| 16 | How seriously ill were the thirty eight ? |
| 17 | Then there were the hot , spiced , yeast buns with their shine of sugar on top . |
| 18 | The earliest risers over a frostbound Swindon yesterday , were the hot air balloonists . |
| 19 | But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ? |
| 20 | And there , across a field filled with long grass and butterflies , were the Syrian tanks . |
| 21 | Mr Jiri Dienstbier , the Forum spokesman , responded coolly to the appointment of the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , and said that were the Communist Mr Calfa to remain in office the president would have to be a non-Communist . |
| 22 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 23 | The attacks , directed at Palestinian positions around the southern port of Sidon , were the heaviest carried out by Israel since its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 . |
| 24 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 25 | Students were the final element to join the new cafe society . |
| 26 | The pressures of rising rent and the problem of filling a large shop with goods of high quality were the final straws . |
| 27 | Further disputes over pitch-covering and residential qualifications were the final nails in the coffin of Fender 's captaincy aspirations . |
| 28 | Morellet , Monet as experienced in his studio at Giverny , and Le Courbusier discovered at Marseille were the final French enthusiasms of Ellsworth Kelly . |
| 29 | ‘ You , of course , were the final one — the one your father thought I would be unable to resist . |
| 30 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |