Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] [prep] power [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later the hierarchy made it clear that the basis for their objections was the increase in power by the state vis-à-vis the liberty and self-reliance of its citizens which such legislation would entail . |
| 2 | This idea was developed further by Montesquieu , the French philosopher , who expressed the view that it was the separation of powers of government which ensured the liberty of the English . |
| 3 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 4 | This fell far short of the change which the Catholic majority wanted — which was the transfer of power to their elected representatives — but the DCAC could afford to take a sanguine view of the change . |
| 5 | The event which affected Britain at this time was the fall from power of Magnentius . |
| 6 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 7 | The revolutionary aspect of the new women 's committees , as with the new medical work , was the transmission of power to the lowest community level by a network of committees in a large number of localities . |
| 8 | What generalized the appeal of Paisley 's critique of the unionist élites was the accession to power of Terence O'Neill . |
| 9 | First , there was the accession to power in Britain of the Labour Party , some of whom were sympathetic to the idea of ‘ sensible reform ’ ( Bew et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | No less catastrophic was the seizure of power by the Colonels in 1967 . |
| 11 | When Stalin died in 1953 and his domination of the executive role ended , there was a struggle for power between leading party figures like Malenkov , Khrushchev and Bulganin . |
| 12 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 13 | There was no lack of power in the slamming but complex funk riffs of Pump Out the Miles , and |
| 14 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |