Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of setting up the main problems facing UK carpet manufacturers were the depressed state of the economy and the fact that imports of carpets were taking an increasing share of a diminishing market . |
| 2 | Public utilities such as electricity supply and London Transport were put under public corporations between the wars , and they were the standard form of nationalization in the Attlee government for railways , air and freight transport , coal and steel . |
| 3 | Teaching ward rounds were the standard method of instruction and 27 consultants said their house officers also attended regular clinical meetings . |
| 4 | The only sounds now were the intermittent crackle of the skirmishers ' muskets and the ragged music of a Dutch band . |
| 5 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 6 | The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists . |
| 7 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 8 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 9 | They were the supreme embodiment of sovereignty ; the army owed obedience to them personally ; the debts of the State were their personal debts ; they could override or anticipate the decisions of any court of law . |
| 10 | To him , however , the overriding developments were the increasing centralization of party organization and the growing predominance of the unions . |
| 11 | And dotted through the year were the increasing number of Days dedicated to Saints who were honoured with his particular attentions . |
| 12 | The years around 1900 were the golden age of shopfront design . |
| 13 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 14 | For these two were emotionally fixated on that monster , bonded to it by sentiments which were the cruellest parody of love and of family attachment . |
| 15 | The next few weeks were the usual scurry of fitting and fixturing . |
| 16 | There were the usual number of new faces to get used to , but they all seem a bit vague to me now , except of course for the one face that greeted me on my arrival in the Guard Room . |
| 17 | These were all historical facts , facts about the past which men cited to authenticate or justify their or other people 's actions : they were the chief source of the Zuwaya image of statelessness . |
| 18 | The climax of the East Anglian revolt came slightly later ; there was widespread trouble in Norfolk , Suffolk and Cambridgeshire between 12 and 21 June , in which the main victims were the Chief Justice of the King 's Bench , Sir John Cavendish , and the prior of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 19 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 20 | Income during the year had risen by 8% in real terms to £52.4m , and sales of souvenirs and gifts , which fell by 1% , were the only casualty of the economic climate so far . |
| 21 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 22 | They talk about money in that sharky American style , as if money were the only gauge of anything , the only measure . |
| 23 | But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy . |
| 24 | But he emphasized the Hume-Adams talks were the only window of opportunity around . |
| 25 | I and my tracks were the only sign of life . |
| 26 | Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’ |
| 27 | Previously , the Barbary apes of Gibraltar were the only colony of wild primates in Western Europe . |
| 28 | The clergy were the only source of education apart from the ‘ hedge school ’ teachers ( Dowling 1968 ) and provided a significant moral and organizational resource . |
| 29 | They were the only source of direct involvement for the rank and file as the channel through which they expressed their demands and discontent . |
| 30 | Plants were the only source of help for health improvement for hundreds of years , and doctors were almost entirely reliant on them though some , notably Hippocrates , did stress that hygiene and diet were of major importance . |