Example sentences of "[was/were] the [noun] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor were the paintings on the amphora of a kind any museum would dare put on display . |
| 2 | Newly arrived from foreign parts , I was amazed to find how casual , even slovenly , were the writers on the world 's top selling music paper . |
| 3 | Strangely enough one could believe that the slightest glimmer of light on the dark horizon could be the lights of Geneva , and the glimmer became a glow and the glow became more positive and one could distinguish the lights which were real lights and those which were the reflections on the lake . |
| 4 | WHAT WERE THE EFFECTS ON THE FACTORY OWNERS ? |
| 5 | What investigators worried about were the effects on the pre-adult of films depicting ‘ an exciting robbery , an ecstatic love-scene , the behaviour of a drunkard , and the like ’ . |
| 6 | Unfortunately so sensitive were the Danzigers on the issue that no serious Polish demand appeared reasonable . |
| 7 | There were the critics on the newspapers who had praised the vividness and accuracy of the books . |
| 8 | But , apart from the devastation , especially in the harbour area , the only real dissimilarities I noticed were the shutters on the houses and the fact that the dwellings were all taller and narrower than in England . |
| 9 | The objective of this special orientation , and similar arrangements in several other Mesoamerican cities , were the points on the horizon where the Sun rose and set on the day it passed directly overhead . |
| 10 | Even more bitter were the attacks on the behaviour of the demi-mondaines who did not hesitate to parade ‘ the profits of their vice ’ in front of decent folk and whose example , so it was said , influenced young women of good society : ‘ Among young women who count amongst the best bred and the best brought up , there are those who do not hesitate to copy the manners and behaviour of girls of easy virtue . ’ |
| 11 | Blacksmiths were the thing on the side of the road , did n't he do all the wheeling , mend your wheels , and all horse , all iron wheels , and things like that , wo n't years ago , and you had to send for him to come and do 'em , w well , he had men that he 'd , that he 'd taught like boys , apprentices . |
| 12 | Why were the shepherds on a hill side afraid ? this is quite a good one shall I |
| 13 | ‘ Like to see it ? ’ he asked , and there was the polyp on a tin tray in front of me , looking very battered and sorry for itself . |
| 14 | ‘ In February of this very year there was the attack on the settlement of Tel Hai when six of its defenders were killed by marauding Arabs . |
| 15 | One unforeseen result was the expectation on the part of the recipient villagers that foreign funds would continue to provide capital , repair costs , and so on . |
| 16 | It was odd enough to see that rather feminine room crammed full with so many stern , dark-jacketed gentlemen , sometimes sitting three or four abreast upon a sofa ; but such was the determination on the part of some persons to maintain the appearance that this was nothing more than a social event that they had actually gone to the lengths of having journals and newspapers open on their knees . |
| 17 | Rosemount 's Frankie Flynn was the hero on the night , beating Liverpool 's Thomas Nicholl , to make the score 7–6 . |
| 18 | In the summer of 1991 , I had another mink film to make — this time for Wildlife on One — and the first place I thought of was the logjam on the River Usk . |
| 19 | And , but what you were actually spending was the money on the resources . |
| 20 | The only thing even vaguely new about it was the padlock on the door , which Jekub hit at about six miles an hour . |
| 21 | So what was the problem on the journey then ? |
| 22 | The rest was the rest on the agenda was resolutions dealing with the broader feeling on the economy and what have you . |
| 23 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 24 | He was the man on the Flamingo , the one who had explained to her why so many ships lay at anchor . |
| 25 | Most striking of all , and having relevance far beyond primary schools themselves , was the emphasis on the correlation of social disadvantage and educational achievement . |
| 26 | A key characteristic of the work on the 14th round was the emphasis on the interpretation of data , and the ‘ de-emphasis ’ on the ownership of the data . |
| 27 | What was new , of course , was the emphasis on the centrality of a scientific culture . |
| 28 | What was new in the feminism of the inter-war years was the emphasis on the needs of mothers as individuals , rather than on social maternalism . |
| 29 | The draw was the second on a bill which featured three world title bouts . |
| 30 | The draw was the second on a bill which featured three world title bouts . |