Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If there ever were such a bird in Cornwall , perhaps it flew away in despair ? |
| 32 | Were such a test to be adopted in future , it would reintroduce into British obscenity law a wholly subjective assessment of taste and decency with respect to works of art and public communications , and it would do so by amending an Act which was designed to focus solely on the question of harm . |
| 33 | A poll for the Independent on Sunday on 20 September suggested that , were such a referendum to be held , the result would be a 2–1 vote against ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 34 | The shows that year were such a success with holiday-makers and residents that they continued to produce entertainment there for twenty-five years . |
| 35 | And not just the C&P quality Awards which were such a success in their inaugural year . |
| 36 | In purely military terms it was an amazing success reflecting great credit on Britain 's small but all-professional armed forces — which were such a contrast to the much bigger conscript forces I remembered from the 1950s . |
| 37 | London 's numerous tailors were such a case . |
| 38 | The association with the stigma of poor relief remained , however , and to a very large extent these hospitals became the home for the long-stay patients and the elderly who were such a drain on the finances of the voluntary hospitals . |
| 39 | Be brave , she reminded herself , and kept her features composed when , ‘ Thank you , Fabia , ’ Ven began , and , seeming encouraged that she had stayed , ‘ To explain more fully why I found it necessary to be so brutal when you were such a delight … ’ |
| 40 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 41 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |
| 42 | It was largely this greater efficacy in the treatment of epidemic infections which were such a scourge in those days that allowed homoeopathy to spread so quickly . |
| 43 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 44 | I was sure that were such a scheme to be imposed , it would be vigorously resisted and criticised . |
| 45 | For if you were such a brain , then , provided that the scientist is successful , nothing in your experience could possibly reveal that you were ; for your experience is ex hypothesi identical with that of something which is not a brain in a vat . |
| 46 | ‘ T were such a pity she died . |
| 47 | Unbroken nights were such a luxury . |
| 48 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 49 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 50 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 51 | ‘ I never knew you were such a gossip , Mother , ’ Leith teased . |
| 52 | If there were such a mechanism , if a cloud resembling a weasel or a camel could give rise to a lineage of other clouds of roughly the same shape , cumulative selection would have the opportunity to get going . |
| 53 | Were such a fluctuation to take place now , it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture and economies across the world . |
| 54 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 55 | The Inklings , centred on war-time and post-war Oxford , were such a group : they were dedicated to a revival of Christianity and to literary story-telling , and they engendered the novels and polemics of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien 's huge romance The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) . |
| 56 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 57 | The Scuttlers also jealously guarded the territorial seclusion of their local beer-house — known as the ‘ blood-house ’ or ‘ blood-tub ’ — and they were such a force in Lancashire that the public authorities made various petitions to the Home Secretary for sterner repressive measures to put them down . |
| 58 | Were such an invasion ever to happen , it would inevitably lead to a world war involving the US anyway . |
| 59 | Second , it must be shown that there was no expression of view made by the person as to what should be done in the event that he became incompetent , or , if there were such an expression of view , that it was made when the patient was already incompetent . |
| 60 | If it were consistent the government would have to view these variations too as evidence of inefficiency . |