Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not , however , until the Lough Ine investigations ( summarised by Kitching & Ebling , 1967 ) that any serious experimental data were available to suggest an explanation as to the mechanism by which the pattern arose and has been maintained . |
| 2 | Once established on a final glide-approach to the field the pilot realised that the aircraft was likely to hit a stone wall and attempted to ‘ stretch ’ the glide . |
| 3 | Last year multimedia was supposed to take the industry by storm . |
| 4 | They did n't , what it was they did n't consider that people were suitable to become a nurse . |
| 5 | ‘ So many people were willing to give the company a chance , ’ one shop-owner says . |
| 6 | Commenting on the resignations , he said : ‘ I regret that certain people were unable to accept the majority decision of the executive . |
| 7 | It is regretted that so many people were unable to obtain a ticket for this game and the committee fully appreciates their keen disappointment ; it was an impossible task to satisfy everyone so great was the demand . |
| 8 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | They also identified that more passive people were likely to accept the idea of residential care so that homes are more likely to have as residents the ‘ passive responders ’ rather than the ‘ active initiators ’ identified by Evers ( 1981 ) in her study of a long-stay hospital ward . |
| 10 | In other words , people were able to purchase a wider variety of foodstuffs . |
| 11 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
| 12 | More and more people were able to join the fruit juice , fresh veg and ready-meal eating classes . |
| 13 | As more villages were opened to skiers the sport became cheaper , and a greater variety of people were able to join the affluent elitists on the slopes . |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |
| 15 | It was only then that people were able to make the connections to their own lives and their other experiences of oppression , and how different oppressions overlap and intervene . |
| 16 | She believed in the reality of something ordained by God and described in a book of Holy Scripture read and remembered for thousands of years ; whereas he believed in the reality of something described in the pages of Saunder 's News-Letter & daily Advertiser , which people were unlikely to remember the very next morning . |
| 17 | Representatives from the board , the management and the playing staff were due to meet the fans in tonight 's discussion . |
| 18 | There have even been instances when politicians were ready for a re-evaluation of these policies ( Philippines , Papua New Guinea , for example ) , in which , fortunately , WACC members and staff were able to play a part . |
| 19 | Two of the employer 's staff were able to develop an improved form of circuitry known as the ‘ R ’ model , which became the subject of a patent application by the employer in 1981 . |
| 20 | It seems that the staff were inclined to regard the women as light relief from the sombre business of teaching science . |
| 21 | On October 2 , the Mudros staff were amazed to see a solitary German aeroplane flying towards them . |
| 22 | WGPT 's staff was pleased to host the delegates , who represented the production association Megionneftegaz , located near the city of Nizhnevartovsk in West Siberia . |
| 23 | This burgeoning set of collectors emerging from a lower class and without the cultural or educational background of the gentry were reluctant to relinquish the familiarity of their own country and language by travelling abroad to purchase foreign art works . |
| 24 | In 1990 69% of farmers had made a purchase within seven months of their visit to the Royal , 81% were likely to make a purchase within 19 months of their visit . |
| 25 | There were only about a hundred Cotswold sheep left and a few bloodlines.It was vital to save the breed that created much of our wealth . |