Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 2 | Ayliffe was thus first and foremost a Christian gentleman whose principal concerns were the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 3 | All this could come as a shock to your system if you were the shy and reticent student who hid behind more extrovert col-leagues . |
| 4 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 5 | The beneficiaries of this movement were the new and expanded towns around the city — Bangor , Newtownards , Ballymena , Antrim , and Craigavon . |
| 6 | Now they were thinner and leaner and much dirtier and all they were taking with them were the torn and grubby clothes they stood up in . |
| 7 | More evident were the personal and intellectual connections of prominent ministers and scholars and the friendship of educated liberal families clustered round a particular chapel or linking one congregation with another . |
| 8 | The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility . |
| 9 | Nor were the moral and ethical themes of the reformers helpful in making the schools appear relevant : discipline , character , conscience , service , and so on . |
| 10 | Opposite and a little to the right were the male and female lavatories , and he could hear the occasional feet , light or heavy , hurried or dilatory , of passing members of staff , and hear the swing of the two doors . |
| 11 | Among the patients were the injured and sick of the army . |
| 12 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 13 | Those were the normal and acceptable patterns of Rhoda 's crimes . |
| 14 | Its leading European supporters were the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 15 | But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations . |
| 16 | The most respected fields of study in the radical milieu were the natural and physical sciences . |
| 17 | In 1899 the Secession held their first ( as an alternative to the Salon ) exhibition ; here no foreign painters were exhibited , but at the same time neither were the didactic and patriotic paintings typical of the Salon . |
| 18 | This second grating had either the same or a different orientation as the adapting grating and the subjects ' task was to indicate by means of a lever response whether the orientations were the same or different . |
| 19 | More frequent visitors to the palace in the last months were the American and British ambassador , William Sullivan and Anthony Parsons . |
| 20 | They were the bejewelled and silken-turbaned villains who coloured the pirate archetype of our Western imaginations , wielding their blades and their sea-skills like demons , and bequeathing us their name for our night-mares . |
| 21 | The wife was entitled to compensation for her vexation , anxiety and stress which were the direct and foreseeable result of the defendants ' negligence . |
| 22 | These were the glittering and opulent reminders of the medieval city . |
| 23 | Equally important , if not equally quantifiable , were the psychological and political effects of the accident , which finally destroyed — both in the Soviet Union itself and for outsiders — the myth of Soviet technological infallibility , and any remaining belief in the honesty of Soviet officialdom . |
| 24 | What were the social and economic implications of the slow down in population growth ? |
| 25 | Beggars , the mark of over-populated underemployed Spain , were rare in an egalitarian society where the peasant held his land on a secure tenure and at a low rent ; where the hold of the anarchic nobility had long been destroyed ; where it was socially impossible to evict ; and where women were the social and legal equals of men . |
| 26 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 27 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 28 | The Mesozoic ginkgos were a varied and numerous group of plants , but unlike the spruces and pines they slowly declined in variety throughout the Tertiary . |
| 29 | This political framework filled a continent whose physical characteristics were a long and indented coast , few very high mountains , moderate rainfall and temperature and much fertile land . |
| 30 | And he was sure Blanche shared his opinion : she was squinting at the TV presenter as if she were a small but fascinating object in a museum . |