Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nora 's present from John was a lovely , dainty little diamond brooch . |
| 2 | Until his death in A.D. 337 , many of the more important churches were inaugurated by Constantine himself : S. Peter 's Basilica in Rome was the greatest of these , built to house the shrine of the Apostle Peter . |
| 3 | Chamberlain 's bit of paper was a washout . |
| 4 | However , Richard Baxter 's experience of court was a none too happy one . |
| 5 | Reagan 's command of television was a vital qualification for the presidency in the 1980s . |
| 6 | She was later to discover that a certain J. Olivier believed that Vincent Van Gogh 's self-mutilation in Arles was an aspect of some bull-ritual . |
| 7 | According to one moderate Republican leader in the Assembly , ‘ The first year or two of Reagan 's administration in California was a disaster . |
| 8 | She had never thought Rosie 's friendship with Francisco was the long-standing sort , but it looked as though this sudden illness had drawn them together . |
| 9 | Turnbull & Co. 's agent in Jamaica was a Mr. Campbell who was , also , trustee of Mrs. Duval 's father 's will , under which she was a beneficiary . |
| 10 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 11 | Bob 's bid of $1,630 was the highest paid for any of the 44 aircraft auctioned . |
| 12 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's contest in London was the final competition faced by piped bands from all over the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 15 | The pretty eighteenth-century Gothick villa of Stout 's Hill near Stroud was a small house much extended while a school . |
| 16 | MITCH Cook 's transfer to Blackpool was the only deadline day deal for Darlington . |
| 17 | Cuvier 's counterpart in Britain was a much more prosaic son of the Industrial Revolution — William Smith — whose conclusions were basically very similar but who was far too much a practical man to want to theorise about it . |
| 18 | Garuda 's counterpart in Egypt was the Vulture . |
| 19 | The estrangement which had accompanied his father 's marriage to Turakina was an old wound , long since healed . |
| 20 | Morelli 's insistence on observation was a comparable approach to learning . |
| 21 | As far as education was concerned , for example , Frelimo 's point of departure was an illiteracy rate of 93 per cent , compared with about 50 per cent in Nicaragua . |
| 22 | But the major flaw from the constable 's point of view was the impossibility of putting a good case to a senior officer who was prosecutor , judge , and jury . |
| 23 | Champagne Charlie 's move to London was a tactical disaster . |
| 24 | For 300 years part of the Minister 's stipend in Govan was the first salmon drawn from the river each year , but this was 1902 . |
| 25 | The Government 's record on unemployment was a heavily politicized issue , and just as in 1981 it vehemently denied any responsibility for the riots through its pursuit of free-market policies . |
| 26 | Thankfully the brawl between Arsenal and Norwich City players at the end of last Saturday 's match at Highbury was a rarity ; hence all the fuss . |
| 27 | Predictably Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole was the runaway Christmas hit , proving once again that there is nothing like a television series to help sales of a book — Heffers sold between 1,300 and 1,400 copies . |
| 28 | Similarly , in industries with casual employment such as building in which employees lacked permanent attachment to a given employer , the union 's focus of organisation was the product or labour market rather than the individual firm . |
| 29 | Wagner 's relationship with Schopenhauer was a curious one . |
| 30 | Last week 's outrage in Bangor was the 10th major attack by bombers within 12 months , and the second in the seaside town . |