Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 2 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 3 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 4 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 5 | There 's still no overall control , but it was the Liberal Democrats ' night . |
| 6 | When the house was built , it was the first dolls ' house to have both passenger and service lifts . |
| 7 | It was the new owners ' intention to restore a more barn-like appearance . |
| 8 | Though their general concentration on observation of the material world was thought to encourage atheism , it was the new philosophers ' revival of Epicurus ' atomistic conception of the world which particularly aroused criticism . |
| 9 | He was a member of the archbishops ' committee on industrial problems ( 1917–18 ) , and in 1927 was the two archbishops ' choice to introduce the revised prayer-book measure in the House of Commons . |
| 10 | The statement about the two Libyans was the two governments ' answer . |
| 11 | It has been said that the report was the civil servants ' idea of heaven , with even more figures for the number-crunching mandarins to compare with those that British Rail provided yesterday — to be followed by requests for further reports tomorrow to explain the discrepancies . |
| 12 | During the parliamentary debates , the main feature was the male MPs ' interest in the ‘ equality ’ issue . |
| 13 | Another crucial agreement was the 1970 Workers ' Charter . |
| 14 | It was the Scottish boys ' first victory after 14 defeats in that series . |
| 15 | Although many Latin American Communist parties were split by Trotskyism , the only significant Trotskyist party in the region was the Bolivian Workers ' Revolutionary party ( POR ) , which became one of the two leading Fourth International affiliates in the world ( the other being in Sri Lanka ) . |
| 16 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 17 | Of particular significance and far-reaching consequence to the lives of women was the exilic legislators ' obsession with ritual cleanness — and in order to understand the full import of this statement , I shall momentarily have to digress from our historical outline and spend a little time analysing the reasons for the legislators ' obsession and its impact . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 19 | It was a veritable hornets ' nest ! |
| 20 | He was a real teachers ' pet , worse than me . |
| 21 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 22 | It was a favourite prisoners ' jeer at the guards , though unfair in view of the relative safety of the prisoners ' position . |
| 23 | Well nobody wanted them jobs because it was a seven days ' a week job . |
| 24 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 25 | It was a few moments ' work to have her sitting with her baggage in a gig , to crown the blot with a ridiculous hat , and to write the word CAMBRIDGE on a downward-sloping signpost . |
| 26 | His popular wife , who was a National Farmers ' Union branch secretary before the birth of their children , is seen in the constituency as calm and strong , but also gentle and kind . |
| 27 | The catalyst to make her trust in her abilities and the improved results was there was no separate ladies ' event . |
| 28 | There was no doubting Hearts ' superiority in this goalless affair . |
| 29 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd be disappointed if it was an old ladies ' outing . ’ |