Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |
| 2 | This marks a change since 1969 , when HP and mail order were the forms of credit most often considered but not used . |
| 3 | Were the partings with John ever acrimonious ? |
| 4 | There were the creators of supermen roughly in the Holmes mould and generally attempting to excel him , like the American Jacques Futrelle with his hero Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen , the Thinking Machine , or , in a slightly different mould , G.K. Chesterton with his spiritual , though humble , superman , Father Brown , a genuine Great Detective . |
| 5 | There was a dried-up riverbed not far away , and along its banks were the skeletons of trees long dead . |
| 6 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 7 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 8 | ‘ There were a couple of stains here he wanted us to get rid of . |
| 9 | There were a couple of diggers far out . |
| 10 | If you were a couple of minutes late , you had to go down and see the superintendent . |
| 11 | But , or because same thing like it were a couple of years ago , with finances . |
| 12 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 13 | There were a number of walkers now , all taking their time and drinking in the view , but the chap at our heels had now resorted to breaking away from his party to try and close the gap so obviously gnawing at his soul . |
| 14 | There were passages to Italy and Greece , various trips to Tunis and Algiers , with calls at a number of smaller North African ports , and there were a number of voyages considerably farther afield to West African ports , mostly small , as far South as the Gulf of Guinea . |
| 15 | Although it was at a high altitude and windswept , she created at Bankshead a garden full of her favourite wild flowers , which were a source of inspiration both for her painting and her writing . |
| 16 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 17 | There were a lot of fights anyway , most of them were over jealousy about friendships , also over tobacco . |
| 18 | There were a lot of holiday-makers currently in Heymouth , as it was an extremely popular resort . |
| 19 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 20 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 21 | There were a lot of people there , from a number of boats . ’ |
| 22 | There were a lot of people there , rich people in their best clothes . |
| 23 | There were a lot of people there who felt seriously about what they were fighting for but people went there for a good fight really , they had n't been able to show any aggression for the last two years . |
| 24 | There were a lot of cars now and a lot of lights in the building . |
| 25 | And then the Stevedores , there were a lot of Stevedores here belonging to Stronsay . |
| 26 | By the time I got to the smithy there were a queue of horses halfway down the street , all waiting to be roughed . |
| 27 | They were a sort of club rather like a football club . |
| 28 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 29 | There were no sounds of pursuit now , and only occasional splashing signified that the would-be assassins were searching the expanse of water somewhere behind the first line of pillars . |
| 30 | There were no cows to milk here , and no vegetables to dig . |