Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , the NME was alienating its natural constituents , the reasonably liberal and informed rock fan . |
| 2 | His transactions with his fellows began to lose their artificiality and it was generally admitted that the Prince was losing his rough edges . |
| 3 | If the EEC were to acquire its own resources , then the organisation would lose the element of control over its spending that came with the existing system of national contributions : Hallstein could then argue that giving the European Parliament more authority would provide the necessary democratic control over the Commission . |
| 4 | The trick was to get them all the same size . |
| 5 | One of the Pressmen was doing his own bit of asset-stripping as his eyes roved intimately over her body . |
| 6 | In upholding Peck 's committal order , Judge White said Mancroft was not protected from arrest under Parliamentary privilege or as a peer of the realm in a situation where the courts were exercising their punitive disciplinary powers . |
| 7 | And that the Germans were to receive something revolutionary . |
| 8 | ‘ Some people were saying one thing , the chairman was telling me another . |
| 9 | Looking back , he saw that the gang were pounding his fallen friend with lumps of concrete so he decided to help by jumping into his car and driving at full speed towards them . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the CYL was holding its Twelfth National Congress in Beijing , but most students were more interested in social get-togethers than League policies . |
| 11 | The research publication also contains details of the new independent pub operators — such as Enterprise Inns , Paramount , Pubmaster — which often acquired pubs when the majors were reducing their tied outlets to comply with the Beer Orders . |
| 12 | Moltke 's nerve failed him , and on 25 August — when the campaign in the west was reaching its decisive moment — he removed two army corps and a cavalry division from the German right wing for dispatch to the east . |
| 13 | The Prussians found that the advanced industrial nations of the West were using their colonial possessions to fuel their industrial drive , and accordingly Prussia began to seek out markets that the British , French , Belgians and Dutch did not dominate . |
| 14 | The noise was keeping everyone awake . ’ |
| 15 | But by 1925 , when Droege published the second edition of his Freight Terminals , the truck was making its ominous presence felt . |
| 16 | He said the Iranians were giving their fellow Shias plenty of support , including weapons and transport . |
| 17 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 18 | Given current power shortages and high interest rates , the NEDA was reducing its industrial growth target for 1990 to 5.1 per cent from 7.8 per cent . |
| 19 | Already , it seems , industry was coming to be concentrated on the north side of the Stour — Dedham lies opposite East Bergholt , a booming village — and that the gap was opening which forty-five years later was to be filled by the arrival of the Dutch bringing the techniques of the ‘ New Draperies ’ . |
| 20 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 21 | The man in the car was making his last call . |
| 22 | As the majority of these nations became independent between 1960 and 1962 , a fair bench mark to take for Africa as a whole would seem to be the year 1961 , a time when the continent was beginning its modern period of self-rule . |
| 23 | Many of the Kiwis were playing their first rugby for several weeks , and in the early part of the game it showed . |
| 24 | About this time the Club was given its second trophy and which today is known as the Lovell Bowl . |
| 25 | A passage from Notes Towards the Definition of Culture , relying on ideas from 1913 , hints how the poet was using his anthropological reading when discussing in an anthropological context the difference between imaginative understanding and lived experience . |
| 26 | By 1914 , there were over 400 Board of Trade exchanges in the United Kingdom dealing with juveniles ; in 44 districts the Board had also authorized JACs , and in 58 districts the LEAs were running their own schemes . |
| 27 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |
| 28 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 29 | The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | By the time that the Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts were producing their two excellent booklets on the reuse of railroad stations in 1974 and 1975 , only one per cent of all inter-city travel was by train . |