Example sentences of "[det] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 2 | It has never , therefore , been a ‘ value-free ’ academic discipline , if such were in any event possible . |
| 3 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 4 | The navy consisted of nearly 81,000 men , serving in 378 vessels , though only 285 of these were of any size , qualifying as first to sixth rates , and what really counted in any major action were the 121 ships of the line , manned by 70,000 sailors . |
| 5 | These were to some extent offset by the firm 's success in pre-empting new markets . |
| 6 | Each member of the visiting party , which was chaired by Edwin Kerr , reported back to the group on separate initial discussions with the faculties these were in some disarray . |
| 7 | Yet , compared with the literary censorship of the sixties , these were in most areas miniscule . |
| 8 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 9 | All were in this sense brethren and capable through redemption of striving to abolish sin . |
| 10 | And they had a shop on Vale as well and a shop in erm on , big s store on Road at but that was the Cop , independent Coop you see , like they all were in those days , the Coop , the Coop and so on , had a Coop , had a Coop , had a Coop at er , they 've all had three shops . |
| 11 | With how many were on each board ? |
| 12 | How many were in this competiton ? |
| 13 | ‘ They both belong to the National Front and they both were in that tarring and feathering riot down Deptford High Street . |
| 14 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 15 | Both were in some respects political outsiders who came to power during a breakdown of ‘ normal ’ party politics and exercised a personal leadership at a time of national crisis . |