Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deeside was enjoying an Indian summer of mild , windless days and skies piled with white cumulus . |
| 2 | 1–7 A powerful crane was building a new quay at Ardbeg distillery and a diver was laying the outer walls . |
| 3 | Carolan 's appointment as Minister of Fine Arts was considered a good one , diverting his energies to extolling the peculiar merits of English painting , and to bringing " Pictures to the People " in the form of travelling exhibitions . |
| 4 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 5 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 6 | THE Consumers ’ Association was holding an urgent meeting yesterday over British Airways ' £35m take-over of debt-ridden Gatwick airline Dan-Air . |
| 7 | His first act after his coronation was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth . |
| 8 | He also claimed that player-coach Newberry was given an early bath for ‘ questioning a decision ’ . |
| 9 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 10 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 11 | The point of this experiment was to strengthen the alloxan data . |
| 12 | Radiotherapy was considered the best option for treatment but before this could be started , rapidly progressive dysponea developed . |
| 13 | She would have been surprised to learn that observant Dr Neil was thinking the same of her and her abundant energy . |
| 14 | ( It is interesting that in arguing that polygamy grows out of monogamy Engels was reversing the evolutionary sequence as most anthropologists of his time saw it . ) |
| 15 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 16 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 17 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 18 | Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook . |
| 19 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 20 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 21 | In Lisbon at that precise moment Walter Schellenberg was climbing the steep cobbled alley in Alfama towards the Lights of Lisbon . |
| 22 | This lack of appreciation was to have an adverse effect upon his stance in some of the debates in the 1920s ; something he came to realise and rectify later on . |
| 23 | Nicholson was obviously very grateful and benefited from the continuing rewards as the film made its way to Europe , where Dennis was voted the best new director of the year at Cannes . |
| 24 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 25 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 26 | It was not until the appearance of Michael Cimino 's The Deerhunter ( 1979 ) that the Vietnam combat movie was to make a significant impact . |
| 27 | The result was called the ultraviolet catastrophe " ultraviolet " because that means high frequencies , and " catastrophe " for a reason too obvious to need elaboration . |
| 28 | Already in 1922 , Wheatley was attacking the conventional view that internationalism held the key to ending unemployment : |
| 29 | Paisley was developing a distinctive political position which stressed the religious element in the conflict between nationalist and loyalist . |
| 30 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |