Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So were the CNAA 's commitments . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to make the best of it , ’ were the Headmaster 's last words on leaving that morning to catch the 9.22 to Victoria . |
| 3 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 4 | Then there were the child 's eyes , grey , clear , large and at this moment expressing fear , if she had ever seen it . |
| 5 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 6 | To the War office , they were the Women 's Timber Corps . |
| 7 | Among the financial disasters of this policy were the state 's attempt to rescue the failed Rothwell merchant bank , and a joint venture with the Bond corporation involving a petrochemical plant which was never built . |
| 8 | They were the company 's lifeline . |
| 9 | The material involved may go to show how accurate were the company 's financial statements and how accurate were any representations made . |
| 10 | Dyson assumed they were the company 's directors , bankers , and financial advisers ; they all had an air of unassuming integrity and human dignity which in Dyson 's experience was acquired only by daily contact with very large sums of other people 's money . |
| 11 | At enrolment , endoscopic findings ( number , size , and site of ulcers ; presence of duodenitis and duodenal bulb deformity ) and clinical findings ( including height and weight ) were recorded , as were the subject 's ulcer symptoms ( epigastric pain , burning , or fullness ) and fitness ; personal and family ulcer history ; and social , occupational , past medical , drug , alcohol , and smoking histories . |
| 12 | What was a story about an evil-intentioned crocodile that meets a sticky end is now a story about friendship and respect for animals , especially the reptiles that were the writer 's current favourite animal . |
| 13 | These were the Overseer 's men , Chang Yan and Teng Fu ; big , brutal men who were not slow to chastise their workers and beat them if they fell behind with quotas . |
| 14 | The Cistercians were the papacy 's missionary storm-troops of the twelfth to thirteenth century as the Jesuits were to become at the time of the counter-Reformation . |
| 15 | The two most irreconcilable differences between the JSP and the other opposition elements ( excluding the Japan Communist Party — JCP — which all parties eschewed ) were the JSP 's opposition to nuclear power and its commitment to revise the terms of the Japan-US Security Treaty . |
| 16 | Required to be stated were the goods ' identification marks , the number of packages or quantity of goods and the indication whether the stated weight was the carrier 's or the shipper 's , and the apparent order and condition of the merchandise when received by the carrier . |
| 17 | He and ITN 's Penny Marshall were the station 's Moscow correspondents . |
| 18 | First there were the Mirror 's exclusive pictures of Fergie romping with John Bryan . |
| 19 | So were the boys ' band uniforms and all the girls ' clothing . |
| 20 | Steve and Maria Luisa were the Damocles ' sword swaying over their relationship , ready to drop at any second and break it all up . |
| 21 | Carleton believed that hard-line Protestants like himself were the queen 's only reliable subjects , her very ‘ bowels ’ . |
| 22 | Also close at hand were the Queen 's camp , the camp of the pages and the royal kitchens with , not far off , the great tent used for the court of justice , and the quarters of the two commanders-in-chief , of the Abuna or archbishop , of the state officials and the nobility . |
| 23 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 24 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 25 | If I were the Secretary of State for Social Security , which I am not , my nightmare would be the early morning phone call from the Department 's press office saying that an eviction is taking place that day , that the media and particularly the television cameras will be there and asking whether I would be there and what were the Government 's comments . |
| 26 | Economic growth had slowed from 12 per cent in 1988 to 6.5 per cent in 1989 , and at the first meeting of the new Cabinet on March 20 Roh suggested that the country 's current economic difficulties were the government 's chief priority . |
| 27 | The double digit inflation and growing trade deficit were the government 's most difficult economic problems . |
| 28 | The new Migration Regulations , amending the 1958 Migration Act , were the government 's response to the 1988 Fitzgerald report on immigration [ see pp. 36296 ; 36761 ] and incorporated most of its recommendations as well as nine amendments proposed by opposition parties . |
| 29 | Ramaphosa said that the killings were the government 's response to the launch on June 16 of an ANC mass action campaign designed to force majority rule . |
| 30 | He did not doubt that she was a prisoner , for these were the Warden 's men who they had thought would not dare come so far into the forest . |