Example sentences of "[art] [noun] were a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jellyfish were a wonder , coming in all sizes ranging from the 30-foot , one-ton Lion 's Mane Jellyfish to the fingernail-sized Glass Jellyfish , Aglantha . |
| 2 | The crowds were a wonder to behold . |
| 3 | Not much to look at , because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles . |
| 4 | ( 6 ) Where an award has been given in the absence of a party , the arbitrator shall have power on that party 's application to set the award aside and to order a fresh hearing as if the award were a judgment and the application were made pursuant to Ord 37 , r 2. ( 7 ) With the consent of the parties and at any time before giving his decision and either before or after the hearing , the arbitrator may consult any expert or call for an expert report on any matter in dispute or invite an expert to attend the hearing as assessor . |
| 5 | To examine the possibility that the calculations and checks used to obtain the measure were a waste of effort or even erroneous , graphs were plotted of simultaneously obtained measures and ( scaled ) pixel counts . |
| 6 | The last dull memory of winter faded and the hedges were a mass of silvery catkins of the pussy willow , while amongst them flourished cuckoo-flowers and Jack-by-the-hedge , attracting the early orange-tip butterflies . |
| 7 | The sea had receded , and the yard and the grasslands were a wilderness of sand and mud and wriggling fish , of stones and pebbles and seaweed , of driftwood and shellfish . |
| 8 | There were times when the bikes were a pain but , also times when they were of great benefit . |
| 9 | If he hoped to persuade Mrs Thatcher that the releases were a favour to her and should be rewarded by her support for lifting sanctions , he will be disappointed . |
| 10 | I found none of the double entendres in Whiplash Whispers funny , and the illustrations were a bit tasteless . |
| 11 | The Bassanos were a family of Italian Jews , émigrés from Venice , who came to be musicians and instrument-makers at court in 1531 . |
| 12 | The calls were a cacophony of piercing screams , low growls and a host of other noises . |
| 13 | The Louts were a bunch of youths from another district who came to the club now and again and mildly disturbed the dances . |
| 14 | As a recruiting exercise the meetings were a success one who joined then , now a nurse , was Janet . |
| 15 | Loretta wondered whether Puddephat 's fellowship provided an unusually large salary , or whether the objects were a relic of his marriage . |
| 16 | The key features of the budget were a rise in the corporate tax rate ( by 1 per cent to 17.5 per cent ) and the closing of a number of tax loopholes . |
| 17 | The wide variety of sessions , given by Jean Parmiter , Lucy Jackson , Chris Ruffle and Rosemary Gould including a ‘ trip ’ to the Peruvian mountains , throughout the course were a joy . |
| 18 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 19 | Jammed into the undergrowth were a number of dead bodies . |
| 20 | The manager is no better off , seemingly , than if the employee were a sub-contractor , whose contract could be rescinded for poor performance . |
| 21 | In the one in which the client 's objective was rejected the clients were a brother and sister whose father had died . |
| 22 | We still thought the ATS were a wartime phenomenon . |
| 23 | In 1939 , as in the 1920s , any imports that could conceivably be replaced by nationally produced goods had to be reduced to a minimum or stopped altogether , even if the result were a reduction in quality . |
| 24 | The companies chosen for the study were a creamery , an oil platform , an NHS hospital , a construction site , and a transport company . |
| 25 | The door closed and the voices were a murmur . |
| 26 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 27 | The winners were a couple from nearby Sandwich . |
| 28 | The Fawcetts were a fighting family , although neither George nor Sidney received a medal for valour between them — a clear injustice . |
| 29 | The words were a kind of balm . |
| 30 | The words were a warning . |