Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | These classes were , by and large , closed ; access to the nobility or the peasantry was determined by birth , though occasionally peasants could escape from feudal bondage to the towns , and rich merchants were sometimes able to purchase titles and estates . |
| 2 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 3 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 4 | These cases are ones involving insolvency , that is total net indebtedness ; in them we have seen that either the trust was invalid because the testator 's estate was insolvent , or the trust was valid in spite of the fact that the trustee was insolvent . |
| 5 | But no daytime cry could be left to die out — it must be investigated immediately or the rage was tremendous . |
| 6 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 7 | Stimuli A and B were a tone and a light ; X was the verbal response of saying ‘ now ’ when one or the other was turned on , and Y that of saying nothing . |
| 8 | Either one or the other was a place where he went and looked and he , he was going back in October . |
| 9 | It is difficult to decide whether the audience or the speaker was more degraded by participation in these ‘ homage-giving ’ events . |
| 10 | The race or the idea was born in the local pub 14 years ago … and the challenge is still running … |
| 11 | A question , it was , whether he was propping up the door , or the door was propping him ! |
| 12 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
| 13 | Margaret had to cope with Tom in the mornings , and Gina sat in the long silent room and watched the visitors who came round , talking in hushed voices as if the pictures would be offended , or the artist was hiding somewhere . |
| 14 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 15 | He owes his staff , fellow trustees , and the public an unambiguous answer as to whether he or the government was responsible for that disastrously mistaken museological policy . |
| 16 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 17 | The surface would have suffered saturation bombardment during the final stages of formation but either the surface was too soft to preserve these craters , as indicated by the degradation of the oldest craters , or the surface was somehow ‘ decratered ’ . |
| 18 | Neither Mr Treweek or the pilot was injured . |
| 19 | He had hit it , or the pilot was jumpy , for the Albatros banked steeply to the left , flattened out , looked at Church , and dived for home . |
| 20 | In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers . |
| 21 | By section 16 of the Adoption Act 1976 , an adoption order should not be made unless the parties agree or the court was satisfied that making of the adoption order should be dispensed with on , inter alia , the ground that the parent was withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 22 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 23 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 24 | Finally , it is worth mentioning the possibility that the traditional sadness and dejection with which the first crops were cut in Egypt , or the seed was sown in Greece and elsewhere originates in the same unconscious depressive complex . |
| 25 | Suppose the tendon had stretched for so long it could n't tauten , or the muscle was shrunk so dry its tiny capillaries were flat and empty . |
| 26 | The agricultural future lay with cattle-raising ( the cow or the pig was the only cash product of the small farmer and was sold , to pay his taxes , in the markets that were the centre of Galician social intercourse ) , and this could not develop until railways brought the market centre of Lugo into contact with the mass consumption of Madrid and Barcelona . |
| 27 | Many of the rights arose on the death of the tenant , especially if there was no heir or the heir was a minor , and could have been avoided by conveying the land to younger adult members of the family , or leaving the land by will . |
| 28 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 29 | In some less ambitious plans , the villa started as a simpler rectangular building but would sometimes be expanded with wings on either side as the family became more and more prosperous , or the property was sold to a richer owner . |
| 30 | They must convince the jury , or a judge sitting without a jury , that the words were true , or the comment was honest , or that the report was " privileged " . |