Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only explicit courses in initial training for subject specialists other than language teachers mentioned were a PGCE unit for drama students at a Polytechnic ( for nine students : no. of hours not listed ) , and a 20 hour course for 10 PGCE students of economics at a College . |
| 2 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 3 | The beach at Barra ( population 1500 ) was a different story from the day before — blue sky and lesser wind , so landing was a routine non-event . |
| 4 | Among the Italian maiolica ceramics analysed was the pharmacy jar of Figure 6.4 , which is one of a number in the same style . |
| 5 | Adjoining was the day compartment , with settee , tables , and armchairs . |
| 6 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ‘ , Darling Harbour . |
| 7 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ’ , Darling Harbour . |
| 8 | One substance used was the sex pheromone excreted in the urine of the boar . |
| 9 | No see the material all people used was the nightdress nightdress material . |
| 10 | ‘ The alternate endings are about as different as they could be ’ , Gurr concludes , ‘ yet all Shakespeare changed was a speech heading ’ . |
| 11 | The place that my landlord had recommended was the Palace Hotel . |
| 12 | The largest structure Turner designed and erected was the station roof at Liverpool 's Lime Street station , 1849–50 . |
| 13 | One of the biggest , and most satisfying , projects has organised was the roof work in Gallery 18 — Victorian Engineering . |
| 14 | One of the earliest plans which has been tested and rejected was the village contact scheme whereby carefully selected volunteers gave advice from their homes , liaising with the nearest bureau . |
| 15 | The best you could expect was a doorstep sandwich ! |
| 16 | Mr Murdoch bought the firm for $25m in 1989 and convinced Mr Honey that what he had inadvertently built was a publishing company , not a maker of high-tech electronics . |
| 17 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 18 | The first thing she noticed was the car park . |
| 19 | Bravd winked at the Weasel and went to investigate the shape that they assumed was a pack animal . |
| 20 | The most that that young man received was a supervision order for one year . |
| 21 | In another case in Mid Glamorgan , a young man between the age of 11 and 16 — I pass over six or seven pages of antecedents — was involved in 32 burglaries , 34 thefts , 15 offences of criminal damage and 41 offences involving motor vehicles , but the most severe penalty that he received was a supervision order for 12 months . |
| 22 | The very real tragedy was in the fate of one man and what was needed was an Everyman figure who could carry the story by being charming , innocent , ordinary , and haunted and that is what the skills of Muni could give them . |
| 23 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 24 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 25 | Then what happened was the AIDS crisis became apparent at the point where I was ill and , suddenly , all these people that were right-on theoreticians were suddenly all going on about AIDS . |
| 26 | The only other sighting we 've had was a farm worker who thought he saw the car up towards Cumbermound about nine . |
| 27 | She peered out through the hole but all she could see was the perimeter fence thirty yards away . |
| 28 | He switched the barrel of the gun to and fro , looking for a target , but all he could see was the silk hat and the garish bunch of flowers , pink and green and orange , each with a button-centre like the mad eye of a moon-daisy . |
| 29 | Also enclosed was a shoe fitting record card and a paid reply card which the mother could return in order to obtain a wall poster for her baby 's room . |
| 30 | The earliest music Hewitt-Jones acknowledged was a cello sonata written in 1951 . |