Example sentences of "was [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the principal focus for freight traffic was the goods station . |
| 2 | The result was the commodities boom and a major upward twist to inflation . |
| 3 | His reference book was the Gardeners Dictionary and its author he held in high esteem , writing much later , |
| 4 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 5 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 6 | It was the firearms expert . |
| 7 | in nineteen eighty six I think it was the company divisionalized and I was promoted to sales and marketing director of the erm , I think it was the developments division , which was , was the retirement housing division |
| 8 | No , no , there was the girls school and there was the two boys school |
| 9 | and that was the girls grammar school and then there was the City school where your dad went and there was the Lincoln school |
| 10 | In Devon it was the Darts day . |
| 11 | That legislation was the Medicines Act 1968 which made statutory the previously voluntary arrangements . |
| 12 | What was the balance-of-payments problem in this period ? |
| 13 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 14 | There was the drugs problem where Trying to put me er social hat on , of people there on valium e and other drugs which were floating ground and kids were getting hold of these drugs from their parents . |
| 15 | I worked for Group Four before moving to Edinburgh , erm tt I was the accounts manager for the retail division in Group Four . |
| 16 | She was the oafs ward , an orphan and an heiress . |
| 17 | Yes sir , I 'm Michael Charles er police Superintendent in the at present stationed at er at the time of this incident I was the operations Superintendent at . |
| 18 | Then there was the feet-flat-on-the-floor problem . |
| 19 | The next event in the public launch calendar was the Alumni Foundation Concert in the Great Hall on 11 November , which Lord Armstrong hosted in his capacity as a Patron of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 20 | The second was the rules-of-origin clause which excluded exports by firms not majority-owned by Africans . |
| 21 | The ‘ Illyrian language ’ which they advocated was the štokavski dialect used by the great writers of Dubrovnik . |
| 22 | As well as the British Open Championship of 1987 , there was the Masters title of 1989 at Augusta to make it double major triumphs . |
| 23 | It was the Communications Officer , Barycz . |
| 24 | In 1962 the only focus for the local Labour movement was the trades council . |
| 25 | And of course that was the wages book , that was made up out of that . |
| 26 | It was the authority–s policy , and an implied term of the applicant 's contract of employment , that employees retired at the age when they became entitled to draw the state retirement pension , this being aged 65 for a man and 60 for a woman . |
| 27 | Another person the people in St Aldate 's would have seen was the kings nephew , Prince Rupert , erm only 23 but one of the King 's major assets , a brilliant cavalry commander . |
| 28 | We miss him mainly 'cos he was the fans representative in the team . |
| 29 | For ten years it was The Apostles writ in eight point Univers ( Do n't call us — Production Ed ) |
| 30 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |