Example sentences of "were [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loyalty and glory were the themes of the Song of Roland . |
| 2 | were the , were th were the dumpers in good working order and had |
| 3 | The Met , Signals and Switchboard girls all worked on the same ground floor , next to each other , and at the end of the corridor were the girls in the Intelligence office , although they did n't mix with us so much . |
| 4 | Heat treatment , self-help on the patient 's part , and rehabilitation of the affected muscles by massage and exercise were the tenets of her faith — and I had to admit that a great deal of what she practised depended on scorn for the accepted methods of treatment with splints , braces , and corsets which only assisted the patients in coping with unhealed limbs , not in any actual sense curing them . |
| 5 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 6 | His Chief of Staff ( Ops ) did not even seem to know what were the boundaries of the various corps under command ; there was no map of troop positions , and no one could state just what orders had been issued . |
| 7 | We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding . |
| 8 | Were the markings on it caused by beak-blow ? or tooth-nibble ? |
| 9 | The report suggests that Europe 's universities , which were the venues for the bulk of research biochemical use in 1990 , will find that this will decline due to limited funding and greater emphasis on teaching . |
| 10 | Inns provided much more than accommodation , for they were the venues for feasts and banquets , cultural and social activities , business ventures and political affairs . |
| 11 | A FOUNTAIN of humour in Punch of those days were the malapropisms of the working class . |
| 12 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |
| 13 | So dubious were the powers-that-be in Britain of a single female agent being dropped into occupied France without back-up that they 'd refused to give their assistance . |
| 14 | While the potentially serious effect of the report required some procedural protection , this was weighed against that of the administration in ensuring confidentiality , added to which were the factors of speed and the preliminary nature of the proceedings . |
| 15 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 16 | THE TITLE says it all : the ‘ stolen continents ’ were the lands in North , Central and South America where gentle loving souls lived in some sort of earthly paradise , happily harvesting luxuriant crops and enjoying a stable regime with only ‘ low-key ’ wars . |
| 17 | Were the records of work up to date ? |
| 18 | ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire . |
| 19 | Hugo Ball , a German actor and playwright , Hans Arp , Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco , a poet and artist from Rumania , and Richard Huselsenbeck , a German poet , were the leaders of Dada . |
| 20 | And yet , over the past few years , he is probably regarded in the Caribbean as the West Indies bowler able to extract more movement off the pitch than any other and , certainly , during last summer 's Test series against England , he and Ambrose were the leaders in the ‘ unplayable delivery ’ department . |
| 21 | Truly to celebrate the sacrament for the first time , and to feel for the first time that the hands were the instruments through which God chose to nourish the souls of his people , could be overwhelming with gratitude or with penitence . |
| 22 | Per Tjerssen : there was awe of him in the flock of bubble-gleams that were the meanings of his name . |
| 23 | These were the knights of medieval chivalry so well known through courtly fiction , but based upon historical fact . |
| 24 | Such were the complexities of the tenurial rights in these areas that one bastide — Castillonès ( created in 1260 ) — was shared between the Plantagenets and the Capetians . |
| 25 | The two most common difficulties cited were the complexities of the Japanese distribution system which was mentioned by 27% of respondents and price competitiveness which was listed by 22% . |
| 26 | Three screens showed views of the slim man 's shelter of rocks , but all that could be seen of the target were the streams of laser fire that issued from his blaster . |
| 27 | These were the trends of mail order sales , the percentage and identity of the returns , the sources of manufacture , market research results , plans for mail order catalogues in the future and that Harris knew intimately the chairman of the manufacturers . |
| 28 | And they were the originals of these were made in a place called in Germany . |
| 29 | Before he marketed Playboy — and got fined for sending the Monroe picture through the mails — the only full-page colour nudes outside nudist magazines were the aborigines of the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 30 | How it all came to this I still do n't quite know , so cloudy were the after-effects of the whiskey . |