Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entwined with the question of politics and of film-making as self-expression — a matter of class privilege ( Diaz-Abaya ) or cultural struggle ( Dhanraj ) — -was the issue of women 's sexual objectification . |
| 2 | Over the whole of Russia there-was a dearth of agricultural goods caused mainly by the Famine , and a comparative glut of industrial products from the towns . |
| 3 | The point was that she — and the killer-were the only people who knew Puddephat had been to the flat at all . |
| 4 | An ’ we now know he wuz the Triad connection , the one who took over the sect an' corrupted it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But was n't it ironic that he wuz the one who eventually blew everythin' wide open , an ’ led you to the chink 's drugs operation ? ’ |
| 6 | At last they-were the only ones left , except for Brown Owl , who stayed with them . |
| 7 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 8 | Among those the delegates met were the Adviser to the President on International Affairs , the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence , the Inspector General of Police , and the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation . |
| 9 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 10 | Old-fashioned amateurs used to admire colours with a golden glow , which conservators have demonstrated were the effect of discoloured varnish . |
| 11 | Were the other passengers all sober ? |
| 12 | The Special Squads were the Nazis ' ‘ most demonic crime ’ , representing ‘ an attempt to shift on to others — specifically the victims — the burden of guilt , so that they were deprived even of the solace of innocence ’ . |
| 13 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 14 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 15 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |
| 16 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 17 | Then there were the republican parties who focused their attention on Westminster elections . |
| 18 | For centuries the Roman catholic church and faith were the bread of life to the subordinate classes in Ireland , deprived of their land , civil rights , and education . |
| 19 | The clergy were the only source of education apart from the ‘ hedge school ’ teachers ( Dowling 1968 ) and provided a significant moral and organizational resource . |
| 20 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 21 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 22 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 23 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 24 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 25 | Two major exceptions to the general divide were the secondary schools in Fivemiletown and Ballycastle , where shortage of catholic equivalents resulted in de facto integration . |
| 26 | Even then , this was the sector of vocational or technical schools , which were the schools of the politically and economically less influential classes . |
| 27 | These were not able to afford education or were unable to pass the necessary scholarship or entrance exams , or they were the sons and daughters of artisans seeking similar type craft training for their offspring . |
| 28 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 29 | Red as the clouds which flush beneath the sun 's slant rays , says Ovid , red as the rosy Dawn , were the cheeks of Diana as she stood there in view without her robes . |
| 30 | The national keg brands were the result of a wave of takeovers and mergers in the 1960s and early 1970s that created ‘ the Big Six ’ combines — Bass , Allied , Watney/Grand Met , Whitbread , Courage and Scottish & Newcastle . |