Example sentences of "were [art] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 They were the banker of the Condor missile development on which Argentina co-operated , with the further expertise of Egyptian engineers .
2 Sergeants were the backbone of the police .
3 In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union .
4 Decisions on spending were the responsibility of the head and governors in consultation with a school finance committee of staff and governors .
5 As Rex ( 1988 , p58 ) has pointed out , the 1977 White Paper ‘ A Policy for the Inner Cities ’ stated that it was not concerned with the problems of Black communities as these were the responsibility of the Home Office and the Commission for Racial Equality .
6 At its height the ‘ feudal ’ system meant that Sussex could muster over 300 fully equipped mounted men , 84½ of whom were the responsibility of the Earls of Arundel and another 60 of the de Warennes ; the bishop of Chichester had to find four .
7 To protect itself , Company A , at the instigation of Company B , its parent company , falsely asserted that these accounts were the responsibility of the plaintiffs and wrongfully seized certain metal warrants belonging to the plaintiffs .
8 Curative treatment and medical care were the responsibility of the social security ministry agency Instituto Nacional de Assistencia Medica Previdencia Social .
9 Preventive activities and communicable diseases were the responsibility of the health minister and state health secretariats , which ran health centres , public health laboratories , and hospitals specialising in transmissible diseases .
10 Payroll details were the responsibility of the site wages offices or the salaries department at Euston Road , while personnel information was the responsibility of the site personnel records departments .
11 Gerard Robson , a member of the Falkland Islands ' Legislative Council , was quoted in the Financial Times of Feb. 16 as stating that Falkland Islanders would not be " overjoyed " by the Madrid agreement but recognized that matters of defence and foreign affairs were the responsibility of the UK government .
12 The endoscopic technique and associated sedation or anaesthesia were the responsibility of the treating physician , although , in each case , a full examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract was performed to exclude concomitant peptic disease in the oesophagus or stomach .
13 For an unrepentant Hegel , called back to Earth and observing that the two most conspicuous antinomies were the opposed superpowers , might well persist in preferring his perception that nation-states were the vehicle of the dialectic .
14 The Church 's great feasts , organized by the lay brotherhoods that canalized so much popular piety in Castile , were the expression of the corporate existence of a town .
15 ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’
16 The centres , which will eventually be opened throughout the country , were the idea of the Princess herself .
17 The only restrictions to growth were the topography of the site and the West Façade .
18 Exceptions to this were the case of the Chilean urban poor before and during the Allende period and Peruvian collective action during the 1960s and 1970s .
19 Trusts were dealt with under cognitio , but legacies and inheritances were the concern of the ordinary courts .
20 George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . "
21 The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes .
22 The trappers or trappings were the breeching of the cart-harness .
23 The factors were the scale of the burglary , the evident planning , the speed at which the goods arrived and the quantity of goods .
24 At the same time the huge increases in unemployment , which were the corollary of the expenditure cuts and non-interventionist market-oriented economic policy , undermined the resistance and the strength of the unions .
25 Compared to these regions the mountains and plains of central Spain were the despair of the traveller : ‘ the barest and most melancholy I ever beheld ’ .
26 In the demonology of Scottish football , Jim Baxter and Denis Law were the personification of the '60s .
27 Unconfirmed reports said that other issues discussed and left unresolved were the question of the sale of Chinese missiles to Pakistan and Indian misgivings about recent proposals for a South Asian nuclear-free zone .
28 Er were the name of the gentry who were living in in in the place .
29 By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock .
30 Finally , ‘ Christendom ’ itself has betrayed Jesus by domesticating him as if he were the possession of the church , and by making faith the acceptance of formulae and practices hallowed by the authority of the past .
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