Example sentences of "[adj] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 2 | THIS was no great victory . |
| 3 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 4 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 5 | This was no shabby , run-down Victorian house as we had expected , but a splendid stone-clad manor house with golden hamstone mullions , and a greenish roof of Cornish Delabole slate . |
| 6 | Long before he reached the edge of the wood he knew this was no mere cavalry raid . |
| 7 | This was no mere coincidence , for the oolitic limestone of the Cotswold Hills continues north-eastwards across Northamptonshire and Rutland and into Lincolnshire , taking in , on the way , Towcester hundred , which shows similar characteristics , and skirting the three hundreds of Buckingham , where people were marginally more prosperous than in the rest of north Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | But however it happened , this was no mere " chance " — God was demonstrating his absolute control . |
| 9 | This was no mere cyclical event : it effected a permanent reduction in the relative economic importance of manufacturing , the male worker and the North . |
| 10 | This was no mere offer of assistance , she saw . |
| 11 | This was no mere poetic fantasy . |
| 12 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 13 | Circumcision : this was no new rite . |
| 14 | This was no new phenomenon . |
| 15 | There could be none of the early 1960s sit-downs , it was implicitly recognized , this was no passive Gandhi protest , the state had to be confronted . |
| 16 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 17 | This was no easy task as the Lincoln would be flying at low level over a featureless jungle and the bomb aimer had to be quick in identifying each datum point on the route into and out of the target point . |
| 18 | This was no easy task , given America 's recent history of non-involvement in international affairs . |
| 19 | This was no easy task , night raids are difficult to convey on canvas and a raid so radically different from all others presented many problems . |
| 20 | This was no mean achievement for the son of immigrant parents , and for a man who had left school five years before going back to college . |
| 21 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 22 | Considering that we were completely and utterly untrained at this stage of the war , this was no mean achievement . |
| 23 | This was no mean achievement , bearing in mind that much of the action takes place in the contestants ’ changing room . |
| 24 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 25 | It 's lighter and funnier than it sounds , but this was no gentle role . |
| 26 | This was no simple production assistant . |
| 27 | Though there was one thing she was even more certain of than ever — this was no simple , straightforward assignment she 'd taken on . |
| 28 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |
| 29 | This was no serial hallucination , in which the dreamer was trapped in the viewpoints of a succession of similies . |
| 30 | Despite the apparent informality of the occasion , this was no glorious undergraduate fluke . |