Example sentences of "were [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1st S.A.S. Regiment was at Darvel , the 2nd near Prestwick , and at Galston were the 3rd , 4th , and 5th . |
| 2 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 3 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 4 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia is the only country in our chart where reserves have fallen , from $12 billion to $1 billion ; in 1983 its reserves , at $17 billion , were the second biggest in the world . |
| 6 | McKee ( 1987 ) reports that siblings of unemployed men were the second most important category ( after parents ) to give assistance . |
| 7 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 8 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 9 | In performing so well , BRC beat by 16 seconds Dublin University who have won at Erne and Galweay Heads and were the second Irish crew at Laganside Head . |
| 10 | The Bandung talks were the second workshop to be held since Indonesia launched its South China Sea initiative in 1990 . |
| 11 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |
| 12 | Yeah , second battalion Black Watch were there , we were the second battalion row . |
| 13 | After three enjoyable years as chairman I believe it 's time to stand down I shall miss those monthly meetings at thank you Betty for all the tea and coffee making but I shall have many happy memories , I suppose to me the highlights were the fiftieth anniversary celebration and the brilliant production of Stepping Out . |
| 14 | Other units based briefly on the airfield were the 15th Bombardment Squadron , 305th Bombardment Group and the 96th Bombardment Group . |
| 15 | As though we were the first man and woman ever , walking in the Garden of Eden . |
| 16 | Ayr Raiders were the first stop and the second period saw Devils take a 4-1 lead . |
| 17 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 18 | The balance of trade in manufacturing swung from a surplus of £2.75 billion in 1979 to a deficit in 1984 of £3.75 billion and the years 1983 and 1984 were the first time in history that Britain 's trade balance was in the red on manufactures . |
| 19 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 20 | We were the first to automate all that . ’ |
| 21 | Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so . |
| 22 | Five new openings were the first of 18 new crossing points announced yesterday by the East German authorities . |
| 23 | Scandinavian countries were the first to have to close waterways because of poisoning problems and now Britain has a potential crisis . |
| 24 | Northampton were the first to go down this road when they appointed Barrie Corless last year . |
| 25 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 26 | Fifty-one Vietnamese deported from Hong Kong earlier this month were the first of 3,600 deemed to be illegal economic migrants , after they had failed screening tests by the UN High Commission for Refugees . |
| 27 | The 1980s , he notes , were the first decade in history in which there was no increase in the area of land farmed and — also for the first time — a fall in the amount of fresh water used per capita . |
| 28 | The French were the first to object : they still had qualms about German rearmament . |
| 29 | In the 1940s the elderly , often totally without pensions , were the first concern . |
| 30 | It was they who bought the new consumer items produced by the new industries and who , as already suggested , were the first to practice family limitation on a significant scale . |