Example sentences of "was [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filming nut cracking and other behaviour in the dark forest was difficult enough , but it was the inherently fast-moving activity of hunting that provided the real challenge . |
| 2 | Further , whatever subjects were chosen , it was the tutor who was the critically important factor in success or failure . |
| 3 | Behind me , in the dark , was the similarly undisturbed sheet of crust known as the South American Plate . |
| 4 | The eventual product of their lengthy discussions was the strongly Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship , which was accepted by parliament in early 1645 as a blueprint for the new ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 5 | One of the most noticeable results was the unexpectedly high number of claims from women . |
| 6 | That was the notoriously comic side of his social failure . |
| 7 | Number 4 Brays Buildings , Lower Road , Islington , was the decidedly seedy-sounding location for Benjamin 's new enterprise : ‘ Miscellaneous Repos ’ … |
| 8 | By 1830 Miloš was the internationally accepted ruler of a virtually independent state . |
| 9 | The Patrimony of St Peter was the rather emotive name for the area subject to the pope in the immediate vicinity of Rome where the people held sway . |
| 10 | Then there was the rather sharp bout of questioning , which had had , on both sides , a sort of wariness about it . |
| 11 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 12 | One measure of this was the overwhelmingly rural-agrarian character of her economy and society . |
| 13 | Contemporary with the fan vault was the equally English development of the timber roof , used to cover church naves , guild and domestic halls . |
| 14 | The major factor making for such an enormous increase in the money supply was the equally dramatic rise in government expenditure and the inability of the government to raise tax revenue by a corresponding amount . |
| 15 | Consider , for example , 1920 , which in some respects was the most critical year for Labour . |
| 16 | Grimma once said she thought it was the most astonishing thing in the world . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Stitt argued that Leuchars was the most suitable location for a helicopter base to cover the Central Highlands , with lower level access routes and better weather with less low cloud . |
| 18 | The statues were probably made of cypress wood ; it was commented in later times that this was the most suitable material for cult images because it was so long-lasting ( Pausanias , VIII ; Theophrastus , Historia Plantarum , V ) . |
| 19 | The ATB records indicated that as much as 70% of all training was undertaken during the winter and it was therefore assumed that winter was the most suitable season for training . |
| 20 | I would argue that it was this domestic response-signalling that even moderate and gradual reform was unacceptable to the Cuban elite — which was the most immediate cause of the shift in Castro 's strategy . |
| 21 | This dose produces a murine plasma concentration of 0.16 to 0.35 µg ml - 1 , which was the most effective dose in a syngeneic tumour model . |
| 22 | Results indicated that the combination of self-paced audio-visual study , followed by verbal discussion with a librarian , was the most effective way of increasing student achievement in the ninety question test designed to measure course retention . |
| 23 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 24 | For a long time after its publication in 1903 G.Moore 's Principia Ethica was the most influential work of moral philosophy in English . |
| 25 | As an NME writer Paul Morley was the most influential theorist of ‘ new pop ’ , combining a traditional reading of music 's emotional power with a modernist celebration of that power 's fleeting ambiguity . |
| 26 | Chairman Robinson said : ‘ There is only one Andy Gregory and he was the most influential player in our years of success since 1987 . |
| 27 | ‘ It was the most frustrating time of my life sitting on the bench and watching our hopes blow up in smoke . |
| 28 | those companies which would combine [ ] activity together with [ ] , but where the former was the most substantial part of the business ; |
| 29 | I had read it hungrily in Lima when for a time it was the most substantial piece of luggage I possessed . |
| 30 | Which was the most perfect episode of the New Generation ? |