Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |
| 3 | The function of the secondary speakers was to give a third dimension to the acoustical properties of the recording , and thus provide extra realism . |
| 4 | One way out for the Scots was to contemplate a different marriage for their queen . |
| 5 | Likewise no scheme for seeking American assistance in getting rid of sterling balances was made a serious part of the loan negotiations , even though there are many indications of US suspicion of the sterling area and willingness to assist in its dismantlement [ Van Dormael , 1978 ] . |
| 6 | Derek Keys was appointed the new Minister of Finance , but retained the Trade and Industry portfolio , and continued to have the specific responsibility for economic co-ordination . |
| 7 | They learned that the only way to get back to Leeds with any cash in their pockets was to adopt a tight monetary policy . |
| 8 | Hannington returned to work as a lathe-turner and while serving as convener of shop stewards was elected a national organizer of the AEU in November 1941 . |
| 9 | This cat-and-mouse game between engineers and the elements was to become a major theme in the next great age of wetland reclamation , which began under the Tudors and reached its climax in the middle of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | One of the main objectives of the negotiators was to devise a new system which would avoid a return to the economic conditions of the 1930s . |
| 11 | At least this part of Dubrulle 's prayers was answered the following year . |
| 12 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The Reading Mercury was founded in 1723 and one of its initial duties was to report the untimely death of a popular local farmer , Jonathon Blagrave . |
| 14 | Neither of these seats was to return a Labour candidate even under the exceptionally favourable circumstances of July 1945 . |
| 15 | 17 QT NOTES JANUARY 1990 the suggestion that the notes could be prepared in advance and handed out on QT Days was given a mixed reception . |
| 16 | His best result of recent days was to win a tie-break set in the course of losing to Nicolas Pereira . |
| 17 | Our practice for rest days was to find a safe harbour for the ship where she could be left alongside with two standby crew on board while the rest of the lads went home . |
| 18 | A ripple of new arrivals was making the front row press forwards . |
| 19 | The ISMA , the main trade body of eurobond dealers was made a recognised overseas exchange under the Act and is overseen by the Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 20 | Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 21 | Unisys Corp chief executive James Unruh says he is comfortable with Wall Street forecasts that the company will earn $1.15 to $1.40 a share this year , and told Reuter that the rise in the value of the US dollar and the slow economic growth in Europe and Japan were making any revenue growth in 1993 unlikely : Unruh and other Unisys executives also said that one of the top 10 US banks was installing a new Unisys retail banking system , but refused to identify the bank . |
| 22 | Prior to February 1990 a National Revolutionary Assembly comprising 206 People 's Commissioners representing socio-professional classes was elected every five years by universal suffrage from a list of candidates put forward by the ruling party , the Benin People 's Revolutionary Party ( Parti de la révolution populaire du Bénin — PRPB ) . |
| 23 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , one of the first results of these ideas was to transform the social survey . |
| 24 | One of his first undertakings was to transfer the Tropical African Services Course from the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , ‘ which is not frequented by other students of a kind to make good Administrative officers ’ , to Oxford and Cambridge , where ‘ it would , I am sure , spread interest in our services among other undergraduates of the type we want ’ ; and the great triumph of his career as a bureaucrat was to persuade the Warren Fisher committee , set up in 1927 to examine methods of recruitment into the Colonial Service , that it was unnecessary to look further afield for men ‘ who possess the qualities of mind , character and personality which make for success in the leadership of native … races ’ . |
| 25 | One of his first commissions was to undertake the necessary redesign of the Great Exhibition building ( the Crystal Palace ) prior to its re-erection in Sydenham in 1852–4 . |
| 26 | It was a shocking experience and to the abuses of the gaolers was added the deadly lottery of gaol fever and smallpox , pneumonia and diphtheria . |
| 27 | Also serving his apprenticeship at Kerrs , in the railway wagon design team , was one Reg Mitchell — who in the coming years was to play a vital part in the Battle of Britain with his design of the legendary Supermarine Spitfire . |
| 28 | The first task of the regional committees was to bring the existing voluntary schemes within the scope of the statutory Scheme and to establish new local schemes so as to secure coverage of ‘ busy ’ courts . |
| 29 | In the Belfast research programme one of our aims was to use the complex patterns discovered in a live speech community to throw light on the kind of movements that might have taken place in linguistic change in the past . |
| 30 | His rationalist mentality is commonly seen as a secularizing force , despite the fact that one of his aims was to combat a pervasive skepticism . |