Example sentences of "of [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone to the sideboard cupboard where a bottle of whisky was kept for medicinal purposes , drunk what was there , and died . |
| 2 | Everybody joined arms and a bottle of whisky was passed round ; we finished it between twelve of us in two or three minutes . |
| 3 | From up here , the Forest of Dean was a holy land . |
| 4 | In September 1231 , for example , John le Malemort , a smith , was sent to make quarrels at St Briavels castle , and the warden of the Forest of Dean was ordered to supply him with ‘ wood for making the shafts , charcoal and iron for the heads , and lard for greasing them ’ . |
| 5 | In May the warden of the Forest of Dean was ordered to pay 300 marks into the Wardrobe out of the proceeds , and in September to repay a royal debt of 200 marks to Robert Walerand . |
| 6 | The Forest of Dean was once a great and thriving centre for a number of industrial activities , the best-known being iron and coal production . |
| 7 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 8 | Seventeen year old Stephen Dent from Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean was treated in Moscow earlier this year . |
| 9 | The invariable response of headquarters was , however , to reiterate their ideas on the desirability of centralised technical control and to ignore its cumbersome , deadening effect . |
| 10 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 11 | A dusting of moisture was already starting to form on the blades of grass as the temperature plummeted . |
| 12 | The presence of moisture was found to be necessary to promote chemical weathering and weaken the rock sufficiently for disintegration to occur . |
| 13 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 14 | A mighty army of Kislevites and the Elector Count of Ostland was crushed north of Praag , and the Chaos army advanced along the western foothills of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 15 | Decades later , in 1984 , the sense of unity was still strong enough to calm the sectarian anger that followed the murder of Rajiv Gandhi 's mother , Indira . |
| 16 | Minutes after the Downing Street meeting ended , the image of unity was exploded . |
| 17 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 18 | The profound symbolism of the sacrament of unity was thus gravely impaired . |
| 19 | A measure of unity was provided by routes of communication , on land and sea . |
| 20 | Overall , however , the impression of unity was preserved as delegates voted on 320 non-binding resolutions , many of which reaffirmed Mulroney 's handling of the economy and the issue of national unity . |
| 21 | This new form of Unity was to be concerned with foreign policy issues , virtually to the exclusion of the domestic policies contained in the original Unity Manifesto . |
| 22 | Then they turn against the Prime Minister with a viciousness and a bitterness that suggests that previous talk of unity was nothing more than a charade . |
| 23 | Self-government failing to arrive — how extraordinary that he should have thought it would — a campaign for the non-payment of taxes was initiated in Bardoli , near Bombay . |
| 24 | The Contemporary Arts Centre of Cincinnati was acquitted of obscenity on Oct. 5 for having displayed an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe . |
| 25 | The quality of play was not the highest , but the rallies were lively and , with errors abounding , the four games spanned 70 minutes . |
| 26 | Reshevsky 's style of play was fast and fluent , rather than ponderously strategic . |
| 27 | As a player for Middlesbrough , Liverpool and Scotland he was Renoir with a razor-blade , an artistic hardman , whose flamboyant style of play was world class . |
| 28 | What is incontestable is that Mr Stewart 's conduct during the whole affair was entirely unbecoming of a representative of a national sports , and his claim that the TVNZ cameraman was obstructing the removal of David Lawrence from the field of play was proved by television evidence to be false . |
| 29 | Watching him , we all became aware that the style of play was beginning to favour forwards who should run as fast as wings or centres . |
| 30 | I have to say that the pace of play was abysmal . |