Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] was [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 2 | When she woke she was further annoyed at having dreamed a category confusion , a man and a book , not realising that the category error was partly the answer to the uncouth question , since Proust was coterminous with a book as the eponymous Tom Jones was not . |
| 3 | The only time that he wished he had n't been quite so deeply involved in the skin trade was when the past came to visit . |
| 4 | Though they would hate to admit it , the rock press was once the most important stepping-stone on the way from obscurity to celebrity . |
| 5 | Not fair on Town , but there was something just missing from their attacks ; something not quite right ; the ice cream was n't the right flavour . |
| 6 | In fact , the proposed mass redundancy in and around the mining industry was probably the straw that broke the camel 's back for the British people . |
| 7 | The battle bus was not the great nerve centre of the nation which it might have appeared . |
| 8 | As things worked out the hat/rabbit analogy was nearer the truth than anyone suspected . |
| 9 | On the other hand , there were friends who thought that the Shaffer play was just the sort of thing that Kenneth Williams needed to do . |
| 10 | According to Podolski ( 1986 , pp. 112–13 ) : ‘ The development of the Eurocurrency system was perhaps the most important financial innovation of the post war period … comparable to that of coke smelting in the development of iron and steel , the steam engine in the development of railways … ‘ . |
| 11 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 12 | To him , The Waste Land was primarily the desert of extinct emotion , which symbolized his own failure . |
| 13 | And then you know where the foun the water fountain was where the marsh is , there used to every weekend there used to be a er a chip and fish stall there w and hot peas . |
| 14 | The Patiño material was much the finer , being enshrined in a separate owner catalogue ( an increasing rarity among auction houses in these budget-conscious days ) ( see The Art Newspaper No. 18 , May 1992 , p. 18 ) . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the trading stock was not the same before and after the change . |
| 16 | The ‘ target ’ of the strike action was undoubtedly the railway undertaking but it was obviously a necessary consequence of the strike 's having any effect at all that it should lead to interference in the performance of contracts of carriage . |
| 17 | The first question in each of the opening interviews was why the practice had decided to apply for fundholding status . |
| 18 | The meat tea was probably the answer . |
| 19 | The copper anklet was probably the only thing of value she had possessed , and it was curious that it had not been stolen , for all metal was valuable in the Black Land . |
| 20 | The Sex Row was always the best . |
| 21 | See the road verges was n't the same long ago , it was ditches . |
| 22 | Now I think about it afterwards , the Road Hole was definitely the turning point of the Open for both Watson and Ballesteros . |
| 23 | Norbrook also recognises that the love lyric was not the only type of verse to enjoy popularity in the Renaissance . |
| 24 | It was soon evident that the missile option was not the only one Iraq was considering . |
| 25 | Reportedly , the Sackler maiolica was only the initial offering , which would have been followed by the collector 's bronzes and terra-cottas . |
| 26 | The railway grapevine was not the sophisticated piece of equipment we know today , and it was several years before I discovered the reason for these ‘ apparitions ’ . |
| 27 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |
| 28 | The food crisis was not the result of any incapacity by the Soviet Union to grow enough food to feed its population . |
| 29 | One of the minus factors was clearly the risk of being caught and the associated penalty . |
| 30 | Turn of the Century Saltash was largely the epitome of Victorian respectability where ‘ many neat and tasteful villas and cottages have been built on the most interesting and commanding sites ’ . |