Example sentences of "was [art] good [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the best playhouse in London , and soon the most famous . |
| 2 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 3 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 4 | At the end he knew with certainty that it was not the lawyer , nor the politician , who was the best hope for care in the country , but the Church . |
| 5 | British interests demanded peace and prescribed respect for the independence of all other countries because that was the best insurance against disturbance of the peace . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's very strict , ’ Vimla once told me , ‘ But they say that in her youth she was the best dancer in North India . ’ |
| 7 | Arcand 's witty , thought-provoking movie upset a few people at Cannes , where it was the best film on show . |
| 8 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 9 | He was the best kind of person to talk to , in fact , because you did n't have to listen to him back . |
| 10 | Now I thought it was an equally good answer to what was the best kind of life . |
| 11 | Legislation was the best reflex of public opinion , the real moral thermometer of the country . |
| 12 | Claudia straightened her spine carefully ; that was the best bit of news since she had met the overpowering Roman Wyatt . |
| 13 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 14 | It was the best round of golf for conditions like those I 'd ever seen , or have seen since . |
| 15 | In theory ( and in the long run ) liberals , such as J. S. Mill , were prepared to recognise that representative government based on the whole people was the best form of government since political participation would promote the virtue , intelligence and " development " of the people . |
| 16 | He said the concentration on help for business , especially small firms , improved job prospects and was the best form of help the unemployed could have . |
| 17 | The West Indian openers Cammie Smith and ‘ Shotgun ’ Williams were also men who believed that attack was the best form of defence — but sadly never reached the sunny uplands of consistent success . |
| 18 | Deciding that attack was the best form of defence , I knelt beside him and lowering my head to within inches of his , said , ‘ Next time , It 'll be the bread knife . ’ |
| 19 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 20 | Colonel Fagg obviously believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 21 | The complicated narrative of the emancipation can not be reduced to the proposition that Alexander sensed he was facing a crisis and believed that attack was the best form of defence . |
| 22 | Kerr , returning to his favoured scrum-half position , was the best player for Ipswich |
| 23 | Still , nobody mentioned that Levi was dominating the USPGA Tour , or that he was the best player in America at the time . |
| 24 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 25 | Well that 's , that , that football was the best thing of course . |
| 26 | She was the best horse at Ascot where she got disqualified and she was brilliant at Sandown when people said she would n't handle going much the same as it will be at York . ’ |
| 27 | He says that because of the type of illness it was the best sort of transplant . |
| 28 | In severely ill children presenting to a referral hospital at 1670 m altitude the logistic regression prediction models we have developed indicate that for newborn infants and those up to 2 months of age history of cyanosis reported by the mother was the best predictor of hypoxaemia ; a respiratory rate of >=70/min,; retractions , and grunting were the best predictors in infants 3–11 months old ; and in children 12 months and older a respiratory rate of >=60/min; was the best predictor of hypoxaemia . |
| 29 | In severely ill children presenting to a referral hospital at 1670 m altitude the logistic regression prediction models we have developed indicate that for newborn infants and those up to 2 months of age history of cyanosis reported by the mother was the best predictor of hypoxaemia ; a respiratory rate of >=70/min,; retractions , and grunting were the best predictors in infants 3–11 months old ; and in children 12 months and older a respiratory rate of >=60/min; was the best predictor of hypoxaemia . |
| 30 | PTHrP was the best predictor for response , with high PTHrP levels correlating with poor response and vice versa . |