Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 2 | Tribal sculpture and the painting of Cézanne , both of which were used extensively by Picasso as sources for the Demoiselles , were to be the two major influences in the creation of Cubism ; in fact the constant inspiration which Picasso and Braque drew from the art of Cézanne and the stimulation which tribal sculpture provided for Picasso were the only important outside influences in the development of a style which was to be very self-contained . |
| 3 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 4 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 5 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 6 | If Turenne and Gustavus were the leading soldiers on the Protestant side , then Tilly and Wallenstein were the leading figures in the armies of Ferdinand , who had himself been educated by the Jesuits at Ingolstadt . |
| 7 | If things were not always plain sailing in her developing relationship with Nicky , her days at Maison de Levantiére were an increasing pleasure for Constance . |
| 8 | Manchester United banked nearly £7m from all matches at Old Trafford , while Arsenal were the only other club to break the £5m barrier for League games alone . |
| 9 | Jack and Violet Sangston were the oldest , and their seventeen-year-old son Reggie was the youngest . |
| 10 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 11 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 12 | As the Habsburgs were the standard bearers of the Holy Roman Empire , they saw this frontier as the protective wall which shielded Christendom from the infidel Islamic hordes . |
| 13 | The Habsburgs were the traditional enemy and still ruled ‘ unredeemed ’ Italians . |
| 14 | Great dockyards such as Chatham , Brest or Kronstadt were the biggest and most complex unified industrial enterprises of the age . |
| 15 | In fact , the new installations of the collections in Denver were the collaborative work of curators , designers and educators . |
| 16 | Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the acting master and matron , and they were not universally popular . |
| 17 | ‘ Fagg and Chatterton were the leading lights and , of course , Blenkinsop was putty in their hands . |
| 18 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 19 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 20 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 21 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 22 | The first Westerner to enter Basra was a former US Attorney General , Ramsay Clark — a veteran anti-war campaigner — who toured the city on Feb. 5-6 , and described what he saw there as " a human and civilian tragedy " . |
| 23 | Wally was an odd bloke though . |
| 24 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 25 | Erm , well Spencer was a great great great bloke from many points of view but er unfortunately his ideas of er evolution were er mixed up as it were . |
| 26 | Spencer was the leading advocate of this view on the MFGB executive , persistently advocating greater district autonomy and full membership balloting . |
| 27 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 28 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 29 | Indeed , I well remember my one , involuntary , appearance on the front page of one of Fleet Street 's best-selling tabloids , alongside eight other guilty-looking British journalists , the morning after we had all failed to warn our readers that Cassius Clay was a whole lot better than Sonny Liston . |
| 30 | But it was worth waiting , for ‘ Montini was a great talker of great subtlety , the very opposite of the earthy and outspoken Tardini ’ . |