Example sentences of "[was/were] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early years , when the portfolio was being constituted , the performance figures were of a basket of securities , united in having a common involvement in books , whether through publishing , manufacturing or retailing . |
| 2 | Having arrived in the dead quiet of the afternoon , I had the place to myself which was fortunate since all 30 prints were of a scale that demanded close contemplation . |
| 3 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 4 | The Special Commission ‘ encouraged the Central Authorities to serve extrajudicial documents not emanating from an authority or from a judicial officer if these documents were of a type which normally would call for the intervention of an authority in their countries ’ , a striking example of the generous approach taken in operating this Convention . |
| 5 | The tests were of a type which could be used for diagnostic purposes . |
| 6 | The two men were reputedly friends and these sturdy cat-built vessels were of a type familiar to Cook from his earliest days at sea , apprenticed to a Whitby shipmaster . |
| 7 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 8 | An inspection also found that the housing 's cold water tanks were of a type associated with Legionnaire 's Disease , so the council has decided to improve the tanks as well . |
| 9 | Now , the means whereby the standards of the higher courses , devised by the new polytechnics , could be validated and monitored were also at hand , with the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , granted its Royal Charter in 1964 , and charged with ensuring that the courses approved by it were of a standard at least equivalent to similar courses in the universities . |
| 10 | The most consistent reports were of a disturbance at a football match on March 25 in Kavaje ( close to Tirana , the capital ) where members of the crowd chanted slogans expressing support for President Ramiz Alia but attacking the repressive policies of his predecessor Enver Hoxha and the " Hoxha dynasty " . |
| 11 | The range and depth of learning and the sense of satisfaction and achievement gained by the students were of a level which could not have been reached in the classroom . |
| 12 | He found of course that not all undergraduates were of a kind . |
| 13 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 14 | Because the salvaged slates were of a size which is not readily obtainable today , the other roof-slope was reclad with new Welsh slates of conventional ‘ Countess ’ dimensions ; 500x250mm ( 20 x 10in ) . |
| 15 | Jasper and his companions were of a size to creep under gates and had done this until they were caught . |
| 16 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 17 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 18 | You could , if you were of a mind to , head for the Pennines and finish up on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 19 | But these ideas of his were of a Prague long gone , a Prague idealised out of my recognition . |
| 20 | The housekeeper , French by origin and known as Madame , was one of those fair Nordic or Norman types whose hair and complexion were of a uniformity to suggest that she had been dipped in custard . |
| 21 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 22 | However , in the case of Lord Inchrya the payments to the beneficiary were of a periodical nature and although made out of capital ( see however Stevenson v Wishart 59 TC 740 ) were payments of income and must be taxed as such . |
| 23 | Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph . |
| 24 | Prosecutor Frank Oliver said : ‘ The centre of the earrings were of a plastic resin material and not opal . ’ |
| 25 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
| 26 | Minor aircraft snags encountered were of no concern as these would be rectified by the previously-noted maintenance crews under the command of S/L Hughes who were scheduled to sail with the vessel . |
| 27 | Despite this she continued to wheeze daily and thought that her inhalers were of no benefit . |
| 28 | The family were of no help . |
| 29 | As a twentieth-century writer has said , ‘ Parish destitution had passed beyond any solution : repressions , palliatives , exhortations and sermons were of no avail . |
| 30 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |