Example sentences of "[adj] were [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 2 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 3 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 4 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 5 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 6 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 7 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 8 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 9 | I sat and pondered these options for some time before deciding that numbers 1 and 2 were probably a bit over the top ( especially if it WAS Darren White that she really fancied ! ) . |
| 10 | If such were genuinely a principle of English criminal law then definitionalism concerning mistake would be vindicated . |
| 11 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 12 | It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area . |
| 13 | But these were also the people who , it is safe to say , could afford to pay these prices . |
| 14 | These were also the pressures behind the limited progress made between the superpowers : it is the world-wide mobilisation against nuclear testing that ensured the conclusion and adherence to the limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 . |
| 15 | These were either the study of technology integrated within a general study of human adaption to the environment , which presupposed a particularly immediate relationship between society and the environment , or alternatively an anthropology of art which , by contrast , emphasized the greatest possible distance between people and their environment , in order to focus upon exotic and esoteric practices . |
| 16 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 17 | These were hardly a threat to Dyson 's rhetorical skills . |
| 18 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 19 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 20 | And these were only the London evenings . |
| 21 | The filing-cabinets ran in all directions , and these were only the cards and the photographs . |
| 22 | These were precisely the areas covered by Banstead . |
| 23 | In the 1980s , search won many new customers ; but these were precisely the companies who had been most reluctant to call on headhunters , and most cautious in using them . |
| 24 | These were obviously the pages that she wanted . |
| 25 | Wright acted as Chairman with two principals , John Haddon and Samuel Davis , and these three were probably the founder members . |
| 26 | The initial allocations of Partnership spending in the late 1970s were often the result of the large , better-prepared and more politically-aware departments putting forward their cases more persuasively than the others . |
| 27 | The really weird thing is East 17 were precisely the people I avoided as an adolescent . |
| 28 | ‘ Good , because those were exactly the orders for both of us this morning . |
| 29 | on doctor 's orders as much as anything else , he restricted his evening engagements to the Tuesday and Thursday of each week ( those were now the evenings when his housekeeper was " off , ) . |
| 30 | Er those were only the setups o as a result of breaking something else down and putting this bearing on . |