Example sentences of "was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a very happy gay man . |
| 2 | Despite these commitments , the last quarter was a difficult time with the recession and the changes in local government financing both having their effects . |
| 3 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 4 | He was a leader of the National Council for the Displaced . |
| 5 | Srifi was a member of a banned left wing group Ila'l-Amam ( Forward ) . |
| 6 | In those moments when a light was a dream or a miracle , you were light in that darkness . |
| 7 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 8 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 9 | It was a very long journey right across the Atlas mountains and down to the edge of the desert . |
| 10 | Who told you there was a prison ? ’ |
| 11 | I am thankful and happy that there was a strange and foreign soul caring about the destiny of a political prisoner in East Germany … when we passed the border last night , I just cried . ’ |
| 12 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 13 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 14 | In London , it was a rather different story , since the literature available needed discrimination , much of it being historical and iconographic , establishing data of little interest to the art student . |
| 15 | As some poets are great readers , Gorky — exceptional among painters — was a fervent scrutinizer of paintings . |
| 16 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 17 | Fry was a connoisseur of Renaissance art , but also he defended Post-Impressionism ( a term he invented ) , was a painter , and published a monograph on Cézanne . |
| 18 | Fry was a connoisseur of Renaissance art , but also he defended Post-Impressionism ( a term he invented ) , was a painter , and published a monograph on Cézanne . |
| 19 | A guide to art reference books published in 1969 had 2,500 entries , some of which referred to series ; for example , there was a single entry for the series of monographs on individual artists , called Klassiker der Kunst , also published in French as Classiques d'Art , in which there are thirty-eight books . |
| 20 | Her idea of the value of art criticism was a simple one . |
| 21 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |
| 22 | There was a crucial sequence . |
| 23 | The illustrated periodical was a phenomenon of a world which Baudelaire saw as reborn on Guys ' paper : |
| 24 | Ruskin was a deeply observant man , a close student of the natural world , and capable of a profound and subtle interpretation of Turner 's art . |
| 25 | He was a successful lecturer , much in demand , and put lectures together to make up books ; certainly a book is the ideal medium for a critic 's extended advocacy of an artist . |
| 26 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 27 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 28 | He asked questions , and between his questions and the painter 's answers , there was a discovery of the painting itself . |
| 29 | Even more , there was a sort of mimesis between Fénéon and the artist . ’ |
| 30 | Art Now had started life as a lecture series , but Read was a frequent reviewer of exhibitions , and a contributor to the Listener , from which some short essays were published under the title The Meaning of Art . |