Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much to look at , because the front lawn and the drive to the Manor were a shambles . |
| 2 | The driver of the Vauxhall was a woman . |
| 3 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 4 | The appellant 's construction of successor in title was the correct one and the decision by the F.C.C. was a nullity . |
| 5 | The Bassanos were a family of Italian Jews , émigrés from Venice , who came to be musicians and instrument-makers at court in 1531 . |
| 6 | The creator god Khnum is often depicted modelling man and Ka together on his potter 's wheel as through the Ka was a double of clone . |
| 7 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 8 | We still thought the ATS were a wartime phenomenon . |
| 9 | In general terms , the Dukeries was a paradigm example of this situation : the companies built villages to house the majority of their workers , and recruited widely ( and selectively ) , though notably from adjacent fields in Nottinghamshire , Derbyshire , and Yorkshire ( 79 per cent of the migrants to Langold , close to the Yorkshire border , came from these three sources between 1924 and 1932 , for example : Waller , 1983 , p. 40 ) . |
| 10 | Prior to nationalization in 1947 , the Dukeries was a vacuum as far as the Labour party was concerned . |
| 11 | Mr Margary 's book on Roman Ways in the Weald was a revelation of how much can be unearthed by a patient and detailed examination of one region . |
| 12 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 13 | The Fawcetts were a fighting family , although neither George nor Sidney received a medal for valour between them — a clear injustice . |
| 14 | The CND was a sort of emotional hold-all . |
| 15 | The Trog was a member of the 3″ Mortar team . |
| 16 | Time was when the Democrats could ignore western complaints , since everything beyond the Mississippi was a Republican fief . |
| 17 | The Hook was a part of it , but it was n't only that . |
| 18 | A hundred years ago — or was it yesterday ? — the promenade in the Bois was a fairy tale . |
| 19 | During this period , approximately 10 000 to 9 000 years ago , the whole of the Fenland was a basin of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks with a varying thickness of glacial deposits covering them . |
| 20 | In a robust speech , which won him a standing ovation , Mr Clarke denied suggestions that Government 's plans to overhaul the NHS were a substitute for extra money for the service . |
| 21 | Now the Thames was a thread of silver below them , and Fenna flew as he had never flown before . |
| 22 | It is believed to be the last living relic of the days when these islands were joined to Europe and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine , where the same species of snail is still found . |
| 23 | The Shiplake Open on the Thames was a victim because the lock cuts were frozen and the main river was a mass of ice floes . |
| 24 | The Left was often unrealistic to the point of silliness ; it failed to appreciate that the USSR was a power with interests of its own which it would pursue , regardless of the feelings of Soviet supporters in Britain . |
| 25 | Even in straight practical terms , Waldron 's departure from The Gnoll was a calamity for Neath . |
| 26 | Following correspondence with Steve Elsworth , Silcock wrote , ‘ I feel … that the CEGB was a bit disingenuous in giving increases in generating costs . |
| 27 | This view is confirmed , not only by the evidence of [ Mr. Bunn ] himself , namely that the wife 's signature on the Monday was a formality , but also the evidence accepted by the judge of what transpired on the Monday , namely , that there was no discussion between [ a bank clerk ] , the husband and the wife , who was merely presented the document for her signature . |
| 28 | Before it became the populist anti-communist crusade of October 1947 or the parliamentary party of 1951 , the RPF was a brotherhood of ex-resisters and Free Frenchmen bound to one another and to de Gaulle by nostalgia . |
| 29 | The RPF was a replica , or a parody , of Free France . |
| 30 | Plays in the Globe were in the open air and always had to be in daylight , but the Blackfriars was a building with a roof . |