Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 2 | Some of this freehold land was no doubt held in small parcels but in the absence of a survey and map its full extent can not be known . |
| 3 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 4 | The result of this policy change was a very quiet three years . |
| 5 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 6 | The essential feature of this timekeeping device was a linkwork escapement quite different from the verge-and-foliot system invented in Europe in the late thirteenth century ( ch. 7 ) . |
| 7 | Of much of this process Coffin was a spectator ; he was unable to tear himself away . |