Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 2 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 3 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 4 | But for her , Mary was a Guise ; and a Guise was not a court butterfly . |
| 5 | The Edinburgh panel decided , however , that HLA alloimmunisation was simply a laboratory end point and that the evidence was inconclusive that filtered blood prevented platelet refractoriness and bleeding . |
| 6 | It certainlt was not a sweeper system . |
| 7 | Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who have n't a clue on what that job entails . |
| 8 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 9 | Murder was n't a stage performance by the local thespians . |
| 10 | Jack could not possibly run the house from Oxford , and Warnie was still a serving officer in the Army . |
| 11 | Branson was not a record man , he was an entrepreneur ; and it was clear that what he wanted out of the record business were new and different opportunities . |
| 12 | Although Mexico was not an OPEC member in November 1984 it cut exports in line with OPEC reductions to help maintain prices and has generally taken care not to step out of line , though it has stated that it would act unilaterally to defend its market position . |
| 13 | It was always accepted that the FAOR study was essentially a research project , and any reservations about the final outcome in relation to the extensive analysis that was undertaken must be viewed in this context . |
| 14 | Despite the referendum result , opponents of the change argued that the vote was only an opinion poll and had no legal force ; the original decision to name the city after Lenin having been taken by the USSR Supreme Soviet , they claimed , it could only be rescinded by its modern equivalent — the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 15 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 16 | In general , the US response to the dispute had been very muted , reflecting the prevailing view in the West that the Iraqi campaign against Kuwait was primarily a scare tactic timed for the start of the OPEC conference in Geneva . |
| 17 | It is relevant that these districts are large , in some cases similar to old counties , and that rural areas contained negligible numbers of oil workers in 1971 when the energy industry was not a census category . |
| 18 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 19 | The ‘ target ’ of the strike action was undoubtedly the railway undertaking but it was obviously a necessary consequence of the strike 's having any effect at all that it should lead to interference in the performance of contracts of carriage . |
| 20 | In common with other scholars we have considered , Durkheim was essentially an armchair theorist who seldom stirred outside his study , or beyond his own milieu , except to give lectures or to participate in learned debates . |
| 21 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 22 | It also pays for telephone installation in the new house ( provided the employee was already a telephone subscriber ) and 50 per cent of expenses incurred in changing carpets and curtains , against bills , up to a maximum of £500 . |
| 23 | Wendt , a noted hardcore fan way back in the days when Nirvana were still a mod band , has been presenting the acts on Saturday Night Live for some years . |
| 24 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 25 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 26 | In Emma Hotels v. Secretary of State for the Environment [ 1980 ] 258 EG 64 ( QBD ) , it was held in identical circumstances that the operation of a non-residents ' bar was not a material change of use and did not require planning permission . |
| 27 | The ECJ made a specific ruling that the holding of shares in its subsidiaries was not a business activity . |
| 28 | But the highlight on 8th February was undoubtedly the Karaoke spot in the evening — another successful way of bringing former and current members of HuStu in closer harmony . |
| 29 | The principal source of support for Mugabe 's proposal was reportedly the ZANU Women 's League , whose leader was Mugabe 's wife Sally Mugabe . |
| 30 | While some investigators found that oxygen gave direct symptom relief , others suggested that any benefit was mostly the placebo effect of air on the rhinopharynx . |