Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly enough , after I 'd announced that I was going to do this , my very first clients were all the star names who had asked about the sound I got when I was playing ! |
| 2 | A crude stone hearth , a few sticks of furniture , chests and coffers and a shelf full of kitchen implements were all the friar 's apparent possessions . |
| 3 | If funds were available the proposal was put to a vote . |
| 4 | Stacked on the floor around their legs was all the luggage that would n't fit on the roof rack . |
| 5 | Oates 's feet were worse every day . |
| 6 | Stage effects were all the rage : listen to the clumping of the giants on the original black discs of Rheingold . ’ |
| 7 | At the time Ho was discouraging thoughts of instant insurrection on the part of the Vietminh it was obvious that as far as French fortunes were concerned the wind had changed . |
| 8 | But , as producers bowdlerized the romantic stories of Marie Corelli and Hall Caine , as well as literary classics by Dickens , Thackeray and George Eliot , the resulting films were all the evidence one needed that British filmmakers had lost confidence in their own ability to find and develop stories , and exploit the medium 's potential . |
| 9 | They are suing the firm for allegedly flying them into a war zone at a time when both British and American governments were aware an invasion was taking place . |
| 10 | I think the fare in later years was half a crown return , and he would park up near the Post Office , so that people could come and leave their shopping with him instead of humping it about the streets . |
| 11 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 12 | While this section had attracted fewer objections and replaced an existing cable , campaigners were angry no inquiry had been called . |
| 13 | She was still striving to get herself back together when , to her astonishment , ignoring the file she had placed on his desk , ‘ Vanity being what it is , ’ he commented , ‘ I thought contact lenses were all the go now ? ’ |
| 14 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 15 | They were Steen the showman ; the prints were Steen the man who wanted to gatecrash high society , the man who wanted a knighthood . |
| 16 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 17 | So far as property rights were concerned the Vice-Chancellor held that words being transmitted by electrical impulses could not in themselves be the subject-matter of property rights . |
| 18 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 19 | In the early days of what was a massive police investigation , officers were confident the killer would be found and the £500 sum was considered appropriate . |
| 20 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 21 | Experiments and modern calculations suggest that the Sutton Hoo type boat could average a speed of 3 knots for little more than six hours , so that a crossing of the North Sea from Holland to East Anglia could have been achieved in about 14 days , although if sails were available the time would be considerably less ( Green 1963 ) . |
| 22 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 23 | Had a bit of difficulty in finding my feet , sexually , as it were , in that although prostitutes were twenty a penny , the kind of up-market lovelies that I favoured were harder to locate . |
| 24 | In the Stadtpark just behind the swimming pool , the cars parked under the chestnut trees were half an inch deep in confetti-like blossom . |
| 25 | Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding . |
| 26 | Dallams were ten a penny in the backstreets of Frizingley . |
| 27 | When all reintroductions and challenges were complete the maintenance diet was reviewed in detail to ensure that it was nutritionally adequate . |
| 28 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 29 | London 's numerous tailors were such a case . |
| 30 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |