Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ’ we now know he wuz the Triad connection , the one who took over the sect an' corrupted it . ’ |
| 2 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 3 | Were the bird auspices wrong ? |
| 4 | The only detractors were the bird lovers and the guardians of the Quantocks . |
| 5 | Tonks was incensed about the Vichy venture , as were the NZRFU folk at home , everyone was embarrassed that they had no way of knowing where the All Black party were , what was involved in the game , and where next the travelling group might surface . |
| 6 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 7 | The ice , the arrogance , the lack of common sense and of control , these were the darkside tragedy . |
| 8 | The Observer scored an average mark , and the worst performers were the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday . |
| 9 | The four banned loyalist groups were the Ulster Freedom Fighters , the Ulster Volunteer Force , the Red Hand Commandos , and the UDA . |
| 10 | To Jerry and me they were the Housten Sisters ( who played the theatres at this period ) . |
| 11 | These were the discussion points . |
| 12 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 13 | There were the Bingley summer courses , and those at Grantley to which we invited professional painters to meet and work with West Riding teachers . |
| 14 | Tesco were the grocery chain and the Green Shield Stamps and it was the kiss of death for Green Shield when they did that . |
| 15 | What were the insurance implications of talking a group overseas , what did we need to eat , was the water clean ? |
| 16 | On the heels of fellow passengers we crossed the tarmac to a lava-strewn field where women sat crosslegged on the ground before their arrays of wooden carvings and shell jewellery : these were the airport shops . |
| 17 | The steward , Mr. Fenton , was very helpful , as were the coach drivers . |
| 18 | The other big losers of the day were the Houston Oilers , who had already lost games they should have won . |
| 19 | Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned . |
| 20 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 21 | Were the church fathers right , he wondered , when they claimed that the soul of a suicide was bound eternally to the place where he died ? |
| 22 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 23 | In pride of place were the Bleakland novels , Quenild Manor , The Mountainside , Elizabeth Nevil , Wrenwood , Lady Irene , Last Loves . |
| 24 | These minute holdings , the consequence of a growing population in combination with a form of gavelkind , were the Galician problem . |
| 25 | The next periods after the Neolithic were the Bronze Age and Iron Age , although nothing of these times have been discovered at Halling it is almost certain the area of the village was occupied . |
| 26 | Rain objected that if that were the case publishers would be getting authors involved in sordid court cases the whole time . |
| 27 | Effective examples of such efforts were the Mechanics Institute movement and Canon Barnett 's Settlement House work . |
| 28 | Present and definitely NOT signing autographs ‘ thank you very much ’ were THE WONDER STUFF , THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS , THE GODFATHERS , JESUS AND MARY CHAIN , PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO ( well , it looked like her ) and THE SENSELESS THINGS . |
| 29 | As it was , the only items in this futuristic , state-of-the-art kitchen with which she was totally familiar were the microwave oven , the toaster and the electric kettle . |
| 30 | At its heart were the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration . |