Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities Kim was told to engage in were pre-selected by her mother from a range of things that Kim could do over a period of 10 minutes or so . |
| 2 | Before the passing of the acts prostitutes were relatively integrated into the cultural and economic life of the casual poor in the garrison towns . |
| 3 | To the rituals myths were attached . |
| 4 | Again all words in the sentences occurred in the RM1 lexicon and words in the collocations list were as heavily represented as possible . ’ |
| 5 | It seems that those in favour of a change in the present restrictions have won the day ; for the repeal of s39 of the Solicitors Act was specifically designed to facilitate MDPs . |
| 6 | This is very similar to the way the accounts book was organised except that we do n't know the page number for each name . |
| 7 | Wycliffe led the way into Glynn 's office where one of the scenes-of-crime team was still at work . |
| 8 | The scenes-of-crime van was parked as near the site as it could get , planks had been laid on the ground approaching and under the scaffolding to preserve whatever evidence there might be , and the area where the body was had been screened off . |
| 9 | However , the correlations between current changes in the spot price and lagged changes in the futures price were low . |
| 10 | The basis ( futures price less the spot price ) was larger than usual and , in the USA on 19 October became negative ( that is , the futures price was well below the value of the index ) . |
| 11 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 12 | Whereas most of the Heralds readers were Labour supporters , only two-thirds of the Mirror 's were . |
| 13 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 14 | Another feature of the courts reorganization was that the Department was no longer located only in London . |
| 15 | De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " . |
| 16 | Er , I then went back er back down the passageway er into the lounge , checked the kitchen checked that the rest of the firearms officers were were okay . |
| 17 | The firearms receipts were probably of the most use to him , and the guarantee cards all carried the purchaser 's signature , Ian P. Sampson in a leaning scrawl that should n't be too hard to imitate . |
| 18 | Of all the Oases Gide was moved most by Blidah — ‘ Blidah ! |
| 19 | Perhaps , one starts to think , the 40-overs beast was actually quite a friendly animal after all , and should not need to follow other endangered species into extinction . |
| 20 | So to improve safety , the umbili wheel was developed . |
| 21 | The terrible disease had already killed many people in the town , and in all the houses people were dying . |
| 22 | The Lions scrum was consistently wheeled , but they put their act together twice in the 21st and 30th minutes , a pushover try being prevented illegally and the referee awarding the Lions a penalty try that Hastings converted . |
| 23 | The Lions scrum was pushed around each time . |
| 24 | The back numbers of The Times newspaper were kept in a basement , under Radcliffe Square . |
| 25 | They added that dawn and dusk were the times sharks were especially likely to attack . |
| 26 | For a period of 4 weeks Mr and Mrs Jones recorded the times Olwyn was in bed by 8pm . |
| 27 | The Times Block was a three-storey building with the upper two floors given over to residential flats . |
| 28 | When Thomas Cook died at the age of eighty-four in 1892 The Times obituary was fulsome in praise of his achievements , but bemoaned the fact that he could not change the character of the average tourist : |
| 29 | The Vacancies notice was still up . |
| 30 | It is therefore apparent that labour within the Personnel area was something of a scarce resource ! |