Example sentences of "[adj] was [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But being forgettable was part of her job ; a jigsaw piece that fitted invisibly into any puzzle . |
| 2 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 3 | The higher the eventual rank , the more likely was blame to be similarly apportioned . |
| 4 | So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth . |
| 5 | Equally important was dialogue on matters of purpose and policy within each school , especially between head and staff . |
| 6 | How important was school as an influence ? |
| 7 | True , the recession has something to do with it but far more important was lack of snow . |
| 8 | And , in focussing upon the events of the inter-war years , precisely how important was unemployment in shaping the political changes which occurred ? |
| 9 | How important was fear of the Socialists in bringing Mussolini to power ? |
| 10 | It also reminds us of how recently belief in the supernatural was part of life . |
| 11 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 12 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 13 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 14 | The debonair style they both preferred for handling issues gave or grim was part of an improbable legacy from P. G. Wodehouse , whose inter-war writings they had both admired from boyhood on . |
| 15 | Indeed , so close was Mithraism to the cult of Sol Invictus that the two are often confused . |
| 16 | In the climate of the time anyone who appeared strange was suspect of heresy , especially those who voluntarily embraced poverty and wandered about . |
| 17 | What kept such hopes alive was conflict between royal kin . |
| 18 | Equally significant was research on landscape evolution , which was now focused on those timescales intermediate between those used for earlier chronological studies and those adopted in process investigations . |
| 19 | Something heavy and barefoot was padding around the conservatory . |