Example sentences of "[verb] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 2 | What transpired was a superb display in the line-outs and the driving rucks , where Garryowen 's Waikato lock , Brent Anderson , gave a typical display , well backed by no.8 Ben Cronin and Robert Costello at lock , but particularly by an astoundingly good all round performance by the 20-year-old hooker , Keith Wood . |
| 3 | Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 per cent understaffed . |
| 4 | Mr. Scott was at the head of his art in Europe , and he ( Sir Joseph Paxton ) said , that the building he had designed was a beautiful building . |
| 5 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 6 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |
| 7 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 8 | The subject proposed was The Problem of Pain . |
| 9 | What Ceauşescu proposed was the ‘ expansion of the socialist farming system to encompass all agriculture … ’ |
| 10 | The onle thing we ever ownd was a hamster and he got dun in by Mr Blackadder . |
| 11 | I really did n't need another jumper , but what I did need was a button-to-the-neck cardigan . |
| 12 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 13 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |
| 14 | What he found difficult to accept was the size of the gap between winners and losers in a system in which inheritance could automatically make one a winner . |
| 15 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 16 | What she had expected was a loving and trusting relationship based on a realistic assessment of each other 's virtues and faults . |
| 17 | The last thing Hazel had expected was the immediate support of a member of the Owsla . |
| 18 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 19 | Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . |
| 20 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 21 | A taste of things to come was the meeting of 258 national and European parliamentarians in Rome in November 1990 . |
| 22 | And the s the trees they would like to come was the pines and the pines because they they 've got a mop like of of leaves do you see , and they were well sheltered there , among these . |
| 23 | The lesson which the NUAW leadership drew was a simple one : strikes lead only to the demoralization of the membership and the speedy self-destruction of the union . |
| 24 | Alexei knelt was the middle of the morning , and the red ball of the sun was already high in the awful blue of the sky . |
| 25 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 26 | Trundling along the lane they entered was a line of galvanized garbage trucks , empty and snaking on their rounds to collect the day 's debris . |
| 27 | To the left as you entered was the copper over which hung a galvanised tub used not only on wash days but also for personal baths . |
| 28 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 29 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 30 | The beach at Barra ( population 1500 ) was a different story from the day before — blue sky and lesser wind , so landing was a routine non-event . |