Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gavellers were usually women , wives of the harvest workers . |
| 2 | I was pressed with an argument that the assignees were not customers of B.C.C.I. The purpose of the Act was to provide some protection for persons who had chosen to become customers of the bank and who were accepted by the bank as customers . |
| 3 | The accused , the finder , was not guilty of theft because at the moment of appropriation the coins were not property belonging to another . |
| 4 | For , in essence , the Russians were simply invaders and had to face the consequences of that fact . |
| 5 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 6 | She carried six crew , including Doug Thompson , Commander , who was an appropriate choice being an ex-RAF pilot , for the Trackers were certainly flyers . |
| 7 | The titles were not ones with which she was familiar : The Book Of Dzyan , The Book of Eibon , The Golden Bough , Ludwig Prinn 's De Vermiis Mysteriis , The Beginner 's Guide to the Necronomicon , and others whose titles were written in so indecipherable a script that she could n't read it . |
| 8 | They added that the foreigners were not hostages ‘ in the normal sense of the word ’ but merely ‘ unable to move because of the rebel presence ’ . |
| 9 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |
| 10 | The songs were still shit . |
| 11 | As soon as the words were out Shannon heartily wished them unspoken . |
| 12 | He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo . |
| 13 | They have now got superior 4 × 4 transmissions , diff locks and the rest , and doubtless would leave the Trooper literally standing when the chips were down off-road . |
| 14 | As in George Borrow 's day , the booksellers were also publishers , and printed their own catalogue . |
| 15 | The Almoravids were really Berbers from the region of the Sahara . |
| 16 | In the last attempt , in 1975 , what made unionisation especially difficult was that , although most of the workers were then Asians , they spoke different languages . |
| 17 | The Slavs were mainly adherents of the Orthodox Church , and many of the Slav clergy saw in the Russian Church an ally in the struggle against the Phanariot Greek clergy , backed by the sultan , who wished to remove Slav influences both from the liturgy and from the administration of the Church . |
| 18 | But in his judgment the RM said the defendants had failed to satisfy him that the dogs were not pit bull type terriers . |
| 19 | The dogs were mostly strays who had befriended American troops and accompanied them through the horrors of war . |
| 20 | The ideas were always Durance 's , he always initiated the paintings and when his hands permitted he carried out the work , but as he had become increasingly crippled the execution had been left more and more to his protégée . |
| 21 | To Horowitz , the Palestinians were now refugees , pure and simple . |
| 22 | The VDs were n't part of her arsenal , but she would have appreciated their style . |
| 23 | The parts for the full-sized robot were cast in epoxy and aluminium powder with steel ribbing for strength ; the pieces were then chromium plated . |
| 24 | Furniture like this involves straightforward cabinet work as most of the pieces were about 8ft high the proportions had to be correct , while the combination of the dark and light woods also helped to relieve the massiveness of the piece . |
| 25 | The jeweller said the jewels were n't rubies . |
| 26 | The windows had a sly , mean look , and Fenella had the sudden impression that the Workshops were not workshops at all , but a single crouching monster , black and hard-backed and scaly on the outside , but possessed of roaring , flaming innards , so that every breath it took belched out hissing steam and curls and wisps of flame . |
| 27 | The wider ones were bridged by old railway sleepers — good army improvisation ! — but the rest one had to jump , and the banks were often mud . |
| 28 | The Merkuts were not part of the Golden Clan , but the remark contained a certain amount of truth . |
| 29 | It was held that the tailor could not sue for any money because the goods were not necessaries ; the minor was already well supplied with waistcoats . |
| 30 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |