Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Republic the experience was a painful and , some would always argue , self-defeating one ; for the Nationalists , united by a common deference towards authority , matters proceeded more smoothly — and in such a way as to determine Spain 's future for almost forty years to come . |
| 2 | The experience was a frightening and unwelcome one . |
| 3 | The sepoy was a large and powerful man , Fleury had been weakened by the siege ; the sepoy had led a hard life of physical combat , Fleury had led the life of a poet , cultivating his sensibilities rather than his muscles and grappling only with sonnets and suchlike … |
| 4 | ‘ The assessment was a supportive and useful experience ’ . |
| 5 | Weaving the seat was a difficult and messy task , for the materials had to be damp to keep them pliable . |
| 6 | God 's guidance in the wilderness was a clear and visible reality . |
| 7 | The court found that there was a wide division of opinion among actuaries as to the relative merits of both methods , that the method chosen by the actuary was a fair and proper method , and that the calculation based on that method was unobjectionable . |
| 8 | The Linny was a new and fashionable area and Elsie did her best to live up to it . |
| 9 | Mr Llewellyn said the flag was a strong and distinctive visual idea with a dynamic and free flowing look which , he said , suggested progressiveness and a customer led approach . |
| 10 | This jealousy between a corps d'elite and those who are not able or willing to come under its patronage is understandable , and became more understandable to me when I reached Hyderabad and found that the Institute was a self-contained and sequestered community , and that its comparatively luxurious campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp , with living quarters graded according to the status of their occupants . |
| 11 | The conference was a welcome and vital opportunity for women and men , both black and white , to share information and their experiences , to use these to identify and challenge oppression and to begin to build a vision of how the personal social services might and can be different . |
| 12 | ‘ He believes the meeting was a constructive and valuable exercise and proved useful in bringing out prominent issues . |
| 13 | The marquis was a sophisticated and generous lover , well-versed in the art of pleasing women . |
| 14 | William the Conqueror was a cruel and harsh ruler , and I do not suggest that we should harry the north ; but during his reign , although people were fearful of the monarch , they were not fearful of their fellow citizens . |
| 15 | At the back was a large and flourishing vegetable garden , the pride of the hospital gardener . |
| 16 | Devlin felt that the relationship was a straightforward and uncomplicated one : there was , he believed , little difference between Christian morals and ‘ those which every right-minded member of society is expected to hold ’ . |
| 17 | In reality , the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch , a 50-year-long saga of crossed purposes — with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 18 | The count was a hundred and twenty one for Benazir Bhutto , seventy two for Nawa Shariff . |
| 19 | The octopus was a popular and recurring artistic motif , which suggests that it too was fished ; the chalcedony intaglio mentioned above confirms that this was so . |
| 20 | The island was a wild and lonely place . |
| 21 | Beyond the bare , black branches of the trees , the sky was a harsh and brilliant blue . |
| 22 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 23 | The farmer was a remote and authoritarian figure and personal contact was often limited to no more than the weekly payment of wages . |
| 24 | Secondly , under the 1973 Act the test was whether it was fair and reasonable to allow reliance upon the exemption clause , whereas under the 1977 Act the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract . |
| 25 | It must be emphasised that the test is whether the clause was a fair and reasonable one to have been included in the contract in question ( see Josef Marton v Southwestern General Property ( 1982 ) , unreported ) . |
| 26 | The door was a scuffed and peeling blue which had probably been painted at least once since the house was built , maybe to celebrate the toilet coming indoors . |
| 27 | So , even though the man was a stranger and I was afraid of him , I began worrying about his being sick , and the idea that he might die made me feel quite desperate . |
| 28 | But the man was a romantic and probably saw Steve as an obstacle he might have to overcome . |
| 29 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 30 | The City was a vulnerable and vital economic target . |