Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 2 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 3 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 4 | [ Had I been more perceptive I might have noticed that even in the movies women were always the rancher 's daughter . ] |
| 5 | In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers . |
| 6 | If a vassal died leaving daughters only , or if an heir who was a minor had sisters , they were also the lord 's wards , and he could freely dispose of their hands in marriage — freely , but with two provisos . |
| 7 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 8 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
| 9 | It 's the kind of objects that get changed more frequently , and particularly those to do with colour , were mainly the wife 's decisions . |
| 10 | We think it would be a sad day if local plans and structure plans were purely a restatement er of P P G three . |
| 11 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 12 | Such men would inevitably develop links with Gloucester ( Milewater was to die in his service at Barnet ) , but they were primarily the king 's servants rather than the duke 's . |
| 13 | Such men would inevitably develop links with Gloucester ( Milewater was to die in his service at Barnet ) , but they were primarily the king 's servants rather than the duke 's . |
| 14 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 15 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 16 | ITA powers over programming would make it more difficult , even , to argue that poor performance was wholly a contractor 's fault . |
| 17 | ( This was presumably a wag 's idea ) . |
| 18 | George was merely the queen 's consort and by his death in 1708 had left no mark on English history . |
| 19 | Liza was obviously a man 's woman . |
| 20 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
| 21 | It was obviously the secretary 's room . |
| 22 | It was obviously an artist 's studio , with stacks of pictures , some completed , some waiting to be framed . |
| 23 | It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it . |
| 24 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 25 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 26 | Cecilia could also vividly remember Tina 's first venture at the School and the founding of the commune , the reputation it earned in a place which , after all , was only a stone 's throw — within easy bell-sound — of her own house . |
| 27 | And even if Robbie decided to remain independent , she would visit her family … knowing that Fen was only a stone 's throw away — with his wife . |
| 28 | And Nicky wanted to , it was only a cock 's stride down the road . |
| 29 | Hope bought a site for this purpose and acted as the client , although he claimed that he was only the Society 's agent , and it was not ‘ his ’ church . |
| 30 | From her account males did not often share their food with others , and the feeding of children was largely the mother 's responsibility . |