Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To the War office , they were the Women 's Timber Corps . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So were the boys ' band uniforms and all the girls ' clothing . |
| 5 | On one side were the Goldsmiths ' Company 's arms , in gold , four yards in diameter , with the legend " Free Grammar School , Stockport " ; on the other the arms again , with " Founded and Endowed by Sir Edmond Shaa , Knight , 1487 ; Re-endowed by the Worshipful the Goldsmiths ' Company , 1832 " in gold letters . |
| 6 | Very often , uncommon denominators were the premises ' rainproofing … |
| 7 | When riot and murder were the peasants ' only means of self-preservation , he argued , " murder becomes an act of altruism " . |
| 8 | The Special Squads were the Nazis ' ‘ most demonic crime ’ , representing ‘ an attempt to shift on to others — specifically the victims — the burden of guilt , so that they were deprived even of the solace of innocence ’ . |
| 9 | The Commission was never able even to begin its discussions , so radical were the workers ' demands , but the elections generated great excitement among the proletariat and Provided valuable political experience . |
| 10 | One was that the prices quoted were the manufacturers ' or shop 's retail price . |
| 11 | Were the corpses ' hands honourably amputated during the funeral rites — or later , after the flesh had decayed ? |
| 12 | Finally , at the extreme western end , were the fitters ' benches and machines , drills , screwing machine etc . |
| 13 | For this reason there were no candidates ' addresses , no attempts to persuade the voters that one candidate 's policies were better than another 's . |
| 14 | The best result of the 1982 pay dispute was the nurses ' pay review body . |
| 15 | Today though it was the residents ' chance to view the house for themselves . |
| 16 | ‘ We won that series 2–1 and it was the Lions ' first tour triumph in Australia . ’ |
| 17 | This was the donkey-boys ' stand . |
| 18 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 19 | The destruction of the monopolistic purchasing cartels , which was the commons ' real object , ensured that the tax would no longer be passed on to the producer in the form of lower prices , and the establishment of the Company of the Staple as a selling cartel enabled the real burden of the tax to be imposed upon the purchasers , the cloth manufacturers of Flanders . |
| 20 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 21 | The 30-year-old Warwickshire captain was the selectors ' choice after Lewis broke down with a groin strain . |
| 22 | Portia appears indeed in Act four to be just in her defence of Antonio , and no one can comment on her choice of suitor in Act three , for surely it was the suitors ' luck and character that were the key to her , or so it seemed . |
| 23 | Associated with the different applications of heavy and lightweight structures for energy conservation was the entrants ' grasp of a need for zoning and the convenience of localised control . |
| 24 | It was the judges ' commitment to freedom that was the main guarantee against despotism . |
| 25 | Occasionally , a Bill will be abandoned as was the Judges ' Remuneration Bill 1953 , which proposed tax-free salaries for judges . |
| 26 | The officials included Squadron Leader Ian Sweet , who was the Championships ' Secretary and the race commentator ; Major Martin Leach , the technical delegate Mr Richard Berry , and PR consultants Colonel Geoffrey Godbold , and Major Hutch Hutchinson . |
| 27 | Hugh Stuart , now 47 and a member of the winning Walker Cup Team at St. Andrews in 1971 , and Joe Carr , one of the great post-war amateurs and now , at 67 , using one of the new extended putters , defeated Bernard Hunt and Peter Mills by 3 & 2 but that was the players ' only success . |
| 28 | So cunning was the sculptors ' work that the story was told that it would come alive to guard the pass against any invader . |
| 29 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 30 | And the only way place I could think to send them was the girls ' changing room ! |