Example sentences of "were often [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early railway stations were often a pleasure to contemplate — imposing sometimes , and sometimes faintly romantic , like the first Crewe Station . |
| 2 | Defensively too Donegal were often a shambles leaving Donal Reid and Martin Shovlin to ponder if they still have a future at this level . |
| 3 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 4 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 5 | Thus , homosexual prisoners were often tainted by the crimes of homosexual guards — even though they themselves were often the victims , ( pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 6 | Equipment and supervisory staff were expensive , he said , and leisure facilities were often the fist victims of cost-saving cutbacks . |
| 7 | Indeed , laymen were often the best protectors of a truly monastic way of life . |
| 8 | The women on the part-time farms were often the only people around during the short winter days so all outside stock had to be attended to by them . |
| 9 | In winter they were often the only ones to see stock in daylight and said they needed to know more about health disorders and their control . |
| 10 | The 55% who indicated they would have liked to increase their farm skills were often the same farm wives who tackled emergencies on their own . |
| 11 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 12 | The initial allocations of Partnership spending in the late 1970s were often the result of the large , better-prepared and more politically-aware departments putting forward their cases more persuasively than the others . |
| 13 | It is salutary to be reminded that during its early years the processions of the newly created Salvation Army were often the subject of violent attack from other protesters , sometimes hooligan groups , who formed a counter-force called the Skeleton Army . |
| 14 | It was noticeable that the libraries who listed a substantial number of local authority courses were often the ones who listed substantial numbers of internal and external courses as well , so that there was a strong relationship between total number of courses and involvement of local authority ( see Table 24 ) . |
| 15 | The three main rivers through Funchal were often the cause of serious flooding . |
| 16 | But the civil service structure of broadcasting did not allow such people to be employed on a full-time basis , and when funds were short the fees paid to freelance contributors of this kind were often the first items to be cut . |
| 17 | The mother 's behaviour was often related to how the child had behaved , but there were long aggressive interchanges which were often the only predictable interaction that the mother and child demonstrated ( Wahler et al . |
| 18 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 19 | A political interest , however , as Colonel Haldane demonstrated could overcome the opposition of powerful politicians , and the chief casualties were often the little people , like the unfortunate John Main , caught in the battle of interests . |
| 20 | The fact remained , however , that the right to present a minister was shared between the Crown , the nobility and some of the major landed gentry , while town ministers were often the appointees of the burgh councils . |
| 21 | Other medical advances were often the subject of rather more hesitation . |
| 22 | As was noted in Chapter 3 , no very great resistance had been mounted to the employment of women in the early days , partly because the numbers were small , partly because the union had been weakened by the 1872–3 strike , and partly , it must be remembered , because the girls recruited to the trade were often the daughters of print workers . |
| 23 | From the CECOS Report it seems that church-related activities were often the main focus of outings for girls . |
| 24 | In fact , the individuals who wrote the ‘ academic ’ pieces were often the people who drew the political conclusions ( e.g. Cohn , 1967 ; Lutzhoft , 1971 ; Poliakov , 1974 ) . |
| 25 | In colonial territories , railways were often the largest employers of labour . |
| 26 | Librarians were often the prime communicators with the press and feeder primary schools . |
| 27 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 28 | With the exception of the private houses , and the public and official structures already described , such temples were often the most romanized element and were therefore visually as well as functionally important . |
| 29 | The clothes were not always very clean , but they were often the only clothes she could find . |
| 30 | Conversions were often the result of a journey , were n't they ? |