Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Animals were only a story in the Book of Remembering . |
| 2 | The dancing was to good old rock and roll music , and even those who were just a twinkle in their father 's eye in the 6Os joined in with the jiving fun . |
| 3 | Women were already an issue in industrial sociology ; for example , married women with home responsibilities were seen as ‘ problems ’ for employers ( Brown et al , 1964 ) and women were seen as having difficulties accommodating their ‘ two roles ’ ( Myrdal and Klein , 1956 ; Klein , 1965 ; Komarovsky , 1962 ) . |
| 4 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 5 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 6 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 7 | The house that I was actually born in is still there , number twenty five er after a while I moved across the road to a bigger house when , cos my mother had an another son and a daughter and then we moved over to the , so when we were quite a bit in the Stoke area . |
| 8 | The programme continued on 5 January 1990 , when Mr G Vincent ( Society Member ) of Wolverhampton and a former Chairman of the Tal-y-Llyn Railway , gave a talk and slide show dealing with the minor railways of Shropshire , of which there were quite a number in the heyday of steam . |
| 9 | Leicester were quite a handful in the first half . |
| 10 | The imposition of a severe censorship and the sacking of all hostile editors ( there were almost no spetsy in the press ) immediately upon the seizure of power in October 191 7 had ensured its smooth running from the political and administrative point of view . |
| 11 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 12 | You were never a slave in Egypt , but your zeide was . ’ |
| 13 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 14 | It was furthermore an exercise in gaining experience in measurements with grass samples , to assist in spotting unforeseen problems . |
| 15 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 16 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 17 | However , Mr. Thornton made clear that in his submission requesting the receipt was merely an incident in the operation of the shop . |
| 18 | The Catechism was considerably in advance of the thinking of average Nonconformists in England and Wales and reflected more the thinking of the self-appointed leaders than the followers ; this was especially the case in the section on the church in which it emphatically taught the existence of a visible Christian Church and not an invisible ‘ union ’ of believers , a very ‘ high ’ doctrine . |
| 19 | This was especially the case in B , where staff were considered unapproachable , and where students were expected to work individually at labs : |
| 20 | This was especially the case in the market . |
| 21 | The Northern Ireland v Republic match on November 17 is a guaranteed sell-out and the ‘ Latvia promotion ’ was obviously a success in terms of a boost in gate receipts . |
| 22 | Unemployment was obviously a factor in bringing about both long-term and short-term political changes . |
| 23 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 24 | It certainly was her sister , the woman was obviously a pain in the neck . |
| 25 | With The Big Parade Vidor won new friends for American films but what had impressed MGM was that the film made money and also pointed to the way in which romance would be coupled with broader themes ; there was obviously no harm in indulging Vidor a little . |
| 26 | But there was obviously no point in wasting any more time expecting to get results the easy way . |
| 27 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 28 | Avitus 's father , who was perhaps a tribune in 456 , experienced the same shift from secular to ecclesiastical office as Sidonius . |
| 29 | Holy men were needed everywhere , but there was naturally a shortfall in the supply . |
| 30 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |