Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought to myself , even as it happened , that this winking of my very self-consciousness was a nice expression of the value I represented . |
| 2 | At the core of their religious experience was a deep attachment to the rigours of Calvinist theology , and in particular to the doctrine of predestination . |
| 3 | He did indeed immediately contact Hamilton , and the result of their subsequent collaboration was a brilliant joint paper published in the journal Science in 1981 , a paper that won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . |
| 4 | When this was remembered , one mark of the exuberant joy of the early Christians and a secret of their costly praise was an overwhelming sense of God 's grace behind the whole of life . |
| 5 | The room in which he worked had been his bedroom since infancy , though now the only evidence of its primary purpose was a narrow divan bed . |
| 6 | Round the bare upper part of her right arm was a black band . |
| 7 | He had his mother 's beauty and strength of feature : straight-bridged nose broadening at the base , below which the line of his upper lip was a flip of Matisse 's brush . |
| 8 | In the corner of his cluttered bedroom was a photograph of a woman dressed in black , her sad , unsmiling face staring miserably from the picture . |
| 9 | The quality of our existing work was a deciding factor and all WGEC employees should be congratulated for the part they have played in helping us to win this contract . |