Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sticking-point was the continuing legacy of the Contagious Diseases Acts , and the wider fear that the profession was still sunk in ‘ blind materialism ’ . |
| 2 | The Sanhedrin was the highest court of Jewish law . |
| 3 | The origin of the Sanhedrin was the seventy men Moses appointed to assist him in judging the people of Israel . |
| 4 | The Sanhedrin was the official court of Jewish justice ( see chapter 1 ) . |
| 5 | The immediate cause of the split was the constitutional changes taking place in the Labour Party ; it was not that the Gang of Four and their sympathizers objected to reforms which improved internal party democracy , but they opposed the particular type of reform which was designed to strengthen the position of Left-wing elements in the Labour movement . |
| 6 | When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s , the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments . |
| 7 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 8 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
| 9 | After being whacked six nil at Crewe Hereford needed a pick me up … the tonic was the first goal against Colchester an absolute gem … |
| 10 | The last decade of the struggle was the 1680s and the period is known as ‘ The Killing Times ’ . |
| 11 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 12 | The award was the second international recognition of SHARQ 's safety record in 1991 — in November SHARQ received the British Safety Council 's Sword of Honour , an award bestowed on only 30 companies worldwide . |
| 13 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 14 | In the latter case the victorious candidate was supported by all parties except the JCP , whilst in the other two the winner was the preferred choice of the LDP , DSP and Komeito . |
| 15 | The winner was the bottom weight and possible Grand National runner Zuko , owned jointly by Mr Stanley Powell and Mr Ken Jaffa , ridden by Mark Perrett , and trained by Mr Stan Mellor , who beat the top weight Mr Jim Joel 's Ballyhane , who was giving the winner 25 pounds , by seven lengths . |
| 16 | The winner was the Viennese architect Gustav Peichl , who proposed a straightforward rectangular design giving over 4,300 square metres of exhibition space on several levels . |
| 17 | The winner was the National Trust for Scotland visitor centre at Brodick Castle with the Red Cross Centre at Irvine taking the Commendation for second place . |
| 18 | The only paper which stood out against the tide was the Communist Party 's Morning Star . |
| 19 | The sentence was the first of its kind under an August 1991 law making the death penalty mandatory for blasphemy [ see p. 38393 ] . |
| 20 | The sentence was the longest ever passed in modern British criminal history . |
| 21 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 22 | No because the hedging was the one thing I wanted to talk about . |
| 23 | He also opened fertile chicken eggs and concluded , falsely , that the heart was the first organ to develop . |
| 24 | The money was the one bright spot the evening had produced so far , the carrot to the threat of the stick . |
| 25 | Brian Steven , Commercial Director responsible for activities at Runcorn , explained that the reorganisation was the inevitable result of fierce competition . |
| 26 | The case was the first in which a former government minister was brought before a Swiss criminal court . |
| 27 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 28 | The case was the first brought against nine extremists arrested in June 1990 in East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] and the first under 1989 legislation allowing milder sentences for those turning state 's evidence [ see p. 36046 for draft legislation ] . |
| 29 | The case was the latest episode in a long history of antagonism between the government and the Far Eastern Economic Review , the circulation of which had been severely restricted in Singapore . |
| 30 | The rise was the second largest on record , after a 142 point bounce in October 1987 when the market recovered from the Black Monday crash . |