Example sentences of "ours was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ours was a humble part of the operation but we were all full of admiration for the crews that carried out the raid in such difficult conditions . ’ |
| 2 | Many were taken away by the Romans , others by Napoleon , but ours was a present from the Egyptian government in the last century — a jolly nice present , too , if I may say so . |
| 3 | Ours was a very happy home . |
| 4 | Cambridge is a beautiful place , and although ours was a training college and not part of the University as it is now , many University societies were open to us . |
| 5 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 6 | I suppose ours was a monstrous house , a great , rectangular , pale-grey stucco house , standing on a high plinth that was hidden by plumbago and a hedge of poinsettias . |
| 7 | Delighted Mr Mitchell , 32 , from Birmingham , said : ‘ Ours was a victory for the paying customer . |
| 8 | He is as daft as a brush and had to be persuaded ours was a worthwhile cause . |
| 9 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 10 | Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army . |
| 11 | I mean ours was a comparably small family with two . |
| 12 | Ours was a human enterprise , but the animal kingdom played its part in the new order of being . |
| 13 | When we protested that ours was a dirt track and not a paved city street , they seemed uncertain of the rules and phoned their chief . |
| 14 | Ours was a hundred and thirty five . |
| 15 | Erm , but ours was a piece of frame work and a grating on it , and you stuck that in the window , when you opened the window you push that in so the air could come in and mosquitoes could n't . |
| 16 | Ours was the building of a railway . |
| 17 | ‘ Ours was the kind of business where the major assets walked out of the door each evening and went home . |
| 18 | The prizes , bookmarks awarded to the youngsters at a show attended by the Queen Mum , featured the flags of all the 16 NATO nations — and OURS was the only one wrong . |
| 19 | In addition , she knew that ours was the kind of show which would give her the right sort of outlet . |
| 20 | At a table behind ours was the English contingent , laughing and drinking ; they were the nucleus of the Mafia Anglais of the regiment . |
| 21 | There are regional labs covering the whole country but ours was the first . |
| 22 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 23 | ‘ Ours was an ordinary happy marriage . ’ |
| 24 | Ours was an unexpected meeting . |