Example sentences of "and [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first moves in this respect began during Allan Hayhurst 's stewardship and were primarily the responsibility of Alan Wilson , who for over thirty years served the BDA with devotion and exceptional skills until illness caused his retirement and death in 1985 . |
| 2 | For those who carried out the purges of the English cathedrals and parish churches during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the artistic objects they destroyed were synonymous with paganism and superstition , and were thus the antithesis of true religion . |
| 3 | Third , major landscape changes appeared to be more and more confined to a change in either tenure or farming type , and were clearly the result of well-thought-out decisions rather than the often piecemeal changes of the 1960s . |
| 4 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 5 | Picasso had never shown publicly at the big Salons , but Braque 's Cubist works exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1909 were widely discussed and were undoubtedly an influence on some painters , while they must have helped others to interpret Cézanne in a more intellectual , objective way . |
| 6 | People who were ‘ chronically sick ’ , on the other hand , were familiar : they had failed to benefit from medical treatment and were therefore a problem , usually best left to themselves or to others to cope with . |
| 7 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 8 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 9 | Like the ‘ Führer myth ’ , they had outlived their purpose even before the end of the Third Reich and were now a liability . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this notion of the station as strong point continued , and was partly the reason for many being built outside the communities they served . |
| 12 | A barman who saw the dance at Berwick 's Quarterbeck Club said last night : ‘ She was having a very enjoyable time and was clearly the life and soul of the party . |
| 13 | He acted as the principal connection between King , Council , and Parliament ; for , until Robert Cecil went to the Lords in 1604 , the Secretary was usually a commoner and was normally the Crown 's principal mouthpiece in the Lower House . |
| 14 | She returned to the bar and was soon the centre of attention . |
| 15 | The United States might have argued that Nicaragua 's concealment of its incapacity constituted fraud and was thus a ground for invalidating its consent . |
| 16 | After having been an interloper in the East India trade in 1696 , he was a major investor in the ‘ new ’ East India flotation of 1698 , and was both a director of the company and manager for the united East India trade over the years 1699–1708 . |
| 17 | The mortgage debt had grown so fast , explained Robin Leigh-Pemberton , Governor of the Bank of England in June 1990 , and was both a symptom and a cause of a wider cultural change in Britain 's society . |
| 18 | Trier is the largest city in the region and was both the capital of ancient Gaul and the birthplace of Karl Marx . |
| 19 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 20 | The British rejection weakened the force of the proposal and was probably a factor in its slow progress . |
| 21 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 22 | She looked Italian , was well dressed and was probably a secretary at the United Nations . |
| 23 | The former agreed " that Gurney had been a very difficult person to manage and was probably the source of all the mischief " . |
| 24 | Granting a monopoly was the easiest way for the monarch to encourage a trade or an industry , and was also a way to reward courtiers , who did not get salaries and hoped for substantial favours of just this sort . |
| 25 | The greatest wild-flower expert in this country is Dr Miriam Rothschild , who had known Charles since he was a child , and was also a friend of Mollie Salisbury . |
| 26 | In October 1626 he had been drafted on to the loan commission for Yorkshire , and was also a commissioner in June 1627 to finance shipbuilding using recusancy fines , which commissions were headed by Sir John Savile ( later first Baron Savile of Pontefract , q.v . ) . |
| 27 | He was formerly a trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature and was also a founder and trustee of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge . |
| 28 | A long-serving member of the Cabinet , he had been appointed to President Robert Mugabe 's first independence government as Minister of Transport and Power in March 1980 , and was also a member of the ruling party 's political bureau , where he was Secretary for Youth . |
| 29 | He said he had environmental credentials as he was a life member of the British Butterfly Conservation Society and was also a member of the Kent branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England . |
| 30 | She personified the sun 's heat and was also a protector of the dead . |