Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 2 | They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day ! |
| 3 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 4 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 5 | Leviticus was happy with the country , thought here were rather a lot of blacks around . |
| 6 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 7 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 8 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 9 | The art students were mostly a bunch of individualistic , head-in-the-sand poseurs . |
| 10 | Well they were mostly the Clydesdale but oh there were some light horses in it too . |
| 11 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 12 | Naturally there will be memories of matters you felt were entirely the fault of others . |
| 13 | It would be mistaken to assume , however , that developments on a larger scale , financed by more prosperous contractors , were necessarily an improvement . |
| 14 | As in Egypt , aromatics were literally a way of life . |
| 15 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 16 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 17 | The two of them were merely a couple of outstanding lady tennis players , one of whom had won Wimbledon . |
| 18 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |
| 19 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 20 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 21 | But formal requirements of this kind were merely a recognition of reality , of the fact that few diplomats could hope to live on their salaries . |
| 22 | In the case of Chinn v Hochstrasser 54 TC 311 at 351 and 357 , the Court of Appeal held that an appointment by the trustees of a settlement under a special power did not contain an element of bounty since they were merely the agents of a settlor whose bounty had been exhausted on the creation of the settlement . |
| 23 | Colonel Smith had been the thief , with Trent 's habit of loyalty as the accomplice ; the Latinos were merely the instruments , Trent thought as he looked across at the thick shape of Pedro Gomez seated on the windward side of the cockpit . |
| 24 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 25 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 26 | It 's weird dimensions were merely the result of maximum usage of the available space and materials … it was punk and we loved it . |
| 27 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 28 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 29 | From the respectable view , these rogues were merely the dregs of civilization — potentially dangerous , it is true , but in no way a part of the true social order . |
| 30 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |