Example sentences of "was [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An dere was nu sign of de devastation yet fe come . |
| 2 | One could say that he was the dissenter in an age of … romantic anarchy . |
| 3 | Our home for the week was the Gasthof Traube , not far from the resort of Lech where Prince Charles and other celebrities go skiing . |
| 4 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 5 | Sixteen sixty five was the plague |
| 6 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 7 | Was the build-up to the first ‘ test ’ too gentle ? |
| 8 | The thing I most disliked was the disapproval of the dons because I admitted I would like to write ! ’ |
| 9 | News of the Prince 's arrival was brought to Nunton on Sunday , 27 April ; but one of Clanranald 's dinner guests that night was the Rev John MacAulay , a presbyterian minister and loyal supporter of King George . |
| 10 | The Minister at Robertson Street Church was the Rev Edward J. Hawkins BA ( Hons ) of Taunton , Exeter and Balliol . |
| 11 | My father was anxious , so was the Rev Vera Brazier of Rye Congregational Church , in Sussex . |
| 12 | One surprise star of the show was the Rev Mel Gray . |
| 13 | Well I , I thought it was the peanut butter you see , and then I just thought what you said last night . |
| 14 | He er was n't the lender , he was the borrower , he went to the bank , says can I borrow this collection of treasury bonds , which he has to put pension fund assets to stock , so he 's immediately er going against his duty as a trustee cos it 's costing the pension fund money this er er excess of five to ten per cent . |
| 15 | The defendant , who was the freehold owner of a house , subject to a local authority mortgage , emigrated to the United States in 1976 , leaving the house in the occupation of his mother , his sister , C. and her husband , D. In April 1979 the defendant signed a power of attorney in favour of his mother in terms which enabled her to sell the property . |
| 16 | Gone was the vagueness , gone the composure . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't detain them for nothing ! ’ was the refrain . |
| 18 | The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth . |
| 19 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 20 | A ‘ Flower Pot and Angel ’ was the trade 's nickname for certain lid motifs ; an alternative design was the Urn and Angels . |
| 21 | The forthcoming trials of Weinberger and of retired Central Intelligence Agency official Duane R. Clarridge were not directly affected by the decision to end the inquiry , nor was the retrial of CIA official Clair E. George , whose first trial had ended in August with the jury unable to agree on a verdict [ see p. 39043 ] . |
| 22 | One consequence was the downgrading of ‘ political news ’ . |
| 23 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 24 | They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment . |
| 25 | The Englishman 's news from New York emphasized again the paper 's tilt towards the United States ; it might cover Italy , India , Denmark , but it was the America of LBJ , poetry , the Vietnam movement , and Golden Gate love-ins that exerted the magnetic attraction . |
| 26 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 27 | Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match . |
| 28 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 29 | Photographers were tending to adopt that method on every job , even if there was the opportunity for a natural approach . |
| 30 | All he lacked was the opportunity . |