Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must begin with a coincidence which I would not dare to recount if this were a work of fiction . |
| 2 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 3 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 4 | If this were a study in local history we should now , of course , be looking ever more closely at the ups and downs of everyday life in Frome . |
| 5 | If this were a list of localities where an industrial plant unleashed disaster on the folks next door , that would be bad enough . |
| 6 | Specifically , we are presented with a rather bland , urban or suburban , middle-class model of family living as if this were a model of or for society as a whole . |
| 7 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | Exceptions to this were the case of the Chilean urban poor before and during the Allende period and Peruvian collective action during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 9 | If this were the case in driving it would have important implications for peoples ’ ability to learn to avoid danger . |
| 10 | Linked with this were the revival of the economy through a change to a market system , the restoration of the environment , improvement and protection of social conditions , linking the country to pan-European structures , and relations between Czechs and Slovaks . |
| 11 | The main manifestations of this were the insistence on education to doctorate level for recruits to the discipline , and the development of theoretical and methodological orthodoxies in teaching and in research . |
| 12 | In short , consideration does not ensure the seriousness of a promise , and if this were the aim of the doctrine , it would surely be more straightforward to devise an explicit test of seriousness . |
| 13 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
| 14 | The symbols of this were the crushing of the demands for equal rights to enfranchisement for the working classes . |
| 15 | If this were the end of the story then there would be large equator to pole temperature differences in the observed troposphere . |
| 16 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 17 | The immediate consequences of this were the disarming of eight battalions , some eight thousand men , and the subsequent arrest on charges of mutiny of between 50 to 60 of the leading mutineers . |
| 18 | Laura was only slightly worried by the adverse publicity but she was bitterly hurt , as if this were an attack on her personally . |
| 19 | If this were an outline for a novel it would probably be rejected as too far-fetched . |
| 20 | The green eyes were wide and considering , as though this were an aspect of him she had not considered before . |
| 21 | If record 113 were an addition to the file in fig. 7.15(a) , the new structure would be as in fig. 7.15(b) . |
| 22 | ( Of the alternative tools used for selection , the most popular were The bookseller with 31% , and publishers ' lists with 28% . ) |
| 23 | ( The least popular were The Language of Specialist Subject , Language Interaction between Pupils , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research on Language ) . |
| 24 | We would n't encourage anything which was risky , and some were a bit near the mark . ’ |
| 25 | He claimed that some were the work of Edward Prince , an artist who lived in the north of the city . |
| 26 | Some billeting arrangements were equally resented by both sides — as when Roman Catholic children from inner-city Liverpool were sent to staunchly Protestant North Wales , and some were the fault of nobody — as when in Cambridge a Greek head waiter 's wife was given a bed inferior to that provided for the wife of an under-waiter . |
| 27 | This was no reincarnation of some centuries-gone swashbuckling master-mariner , but even so — surely this was n't the man she 'd agreed to work with for the next few weeks ? |
| 28 | This was no doubt in part due to his Puritan ancestry . |
| 29 | Evacuation did , therefore , provide a sudden and unexpected revelation of the true incidence of head lice , but this was no reflection on the quality of working-class parenthood , as many hosts believed . |
| 30 | This was no way for the opener of a bazaar and the guest of honour to arrive , she thought indignantly . |