Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ’ we now know he wuz the Triad connection , the one who took over the sect an' corrupted it . ’ |
| 2 | The ice , the arrogance , the lack of common sense and of control , these were the darkside tragedy . |
| 3 | Despite this , quite a lot of good work was done by the eighty fourth-year " leavers " ( aged I 4-plus ) who were the trial group for the project . |
| 4 | Tesco were the grocery chain and the Green Shield Stamps and it was the kiss of death for Green Shield when they did that . |
| 5 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 6 | These minute holdings , the consequence of a growing population in combination with a form of gavelkind , were the Galician problem . |
| 7 | The next periods after the Neolithic were the Bronze Age and Iron Age , although nothing of these times have been discovered at Halling it is almost certain the area of the village was occupied . |
| 8 | Present and definitely NOT signing autographs ‘ thank you very much ’ were THE WONDER STUFF , THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS , THE GODFATHERS , JESUS AND MARY CHAIN , PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO ( well , it looked like her ) and THE SENSELESS THINGS . |
| 9 | As it was , the only items in this futuristic , state-of-the-art kitchen with which she was totally familiar were the microwave oven , the toaster and the electric kettle . |
| 10 | On the left hand side of the room were the user management , from senior managers through to the factory controllers , and on the right hand side of the room were the computer management team . |
| 11 | Was you involved in the Labour Party for a long time before erm before you were the election agent ? |
| 12 | Their pictures were the memory bank of the sport , canonizing the ephemeral in magazines that surfers collected like relics . |
| 13 | And you were the kind lady who gave little Afgie the leprechaun , ’ she added with a warm smile . |
| 14 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you were the electronics officer ? ’ |
| 16 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 17 | This second stage yielded a set of ( ) which were the factor risk premiums . |
| 18 | In the Reich the elections of 1930 were the turning point of Nazi Party fortunes . |
| 19 | On the left hand side of the room were the user management , from senior managers through to the factory controllers , and on the right hand side of the room were the computer management team . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) The provisions of this Act mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below shall apply to licensed canteens , to the holders of licences under this Part of this Act and to their employees and agents as if a licensed canteen were a public house and as if the licence-holder of a canteen were the licence holder of a public house . |
| 21 | The owners of the palace were the Hartig family and it was built about 1700 by Alliprandi . |
| 22 | There were the agronomist nephew and his wife who was already a schoolmarm , two younger brothers , one having finished his philo , the other his service militaire , a niece who was at the Sorbonne and her fiancé reading economics at the university of Rennes . |
| 23 | The only signs of opulence were the gold kleenex boxes and the gold fittings in the loos . |
| 24 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 25 | START-RITE : The famous Start-rite twins were the brain wave of the shoe firm 's advertising agent in 1947 . |
| 26 | Among the 14 awards presented were the Zoeftig Furniture Award of £1,000 which went to the RCA 's Adam Brinkworth and Alison Thomas for their ensemble of stool and armchair . |
| 27 | Nor were the largest shares by an individual group to be found at the end of the period : they were the Mirror Group 's ( more than 40 per cent in each category ) in 1967 . |
| 28 | THEY were the glamour couple of the 1980s . |
| 29 | The similarities between the programs were the menu command system ( two-line moving cursor menu ) and the grid system ( letters and numbers arranged in a " rotated L " ) . |
| 30 | They were the relief night patrol on their way to take over from their colleagues , evidently as yet unaware of their capture . |