Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 2 | The budget deficit was a moderate 4.3 per cent , helping to make Belarus 's economic performance one of the best in the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | One paradoxical consequence of central government limits to rate support grant was a real-money leap in business rates in some areas , and a sizeable increase in the proportion of local budgets paid through rates by the business community . |
| 4 | But the NETRHA story was a different one entirely . |
| 5 | The cost of the rail link was a paltry £12million and all but three million pounds had been found elsewhere . |
| 6 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 7 | Our competition and ‘ opposition ’ in Moose Jaw was the resident staff writer of the Regina Leader-Post who managed his paper 's local bureau . |
| 8 | A more recent study in the allergy field was a double-blind placebo-controlled pilot trial of the efficacy of mixed pollen 30C in hay fever . |
| 9 | The primary reason for the failure of the CAFFE trial was the enormous skilled effort needed to prepare the flow charts . |
| 10 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 11 | In the second case money was the prime factor , both its getting and spending ; it created an artificial environment . |
| 12 | Wenlock Manor was a small Georgian country house , which had been sold as a hotel twenty years ago . |
| 13 | The electronic billboard with its tacky Stardust effect was the ultimate nothing , an entity written entirely in light . |
| 14 | Firstly , the chart parser was an existing framework , originally developed for use in the syntactic domain , but also used in other areas of the speech chain , e.g. acoustic-phonetic analysis ( Church 1983 ) It was specifically designed for automatically building a graph of possibilities , these possibilities being determined by the component knowledge sources , not by the parser . |
| 15 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 16 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 17 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 18 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 19 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |
| 20 | For centuries agriculture was the main industry together with self-employed small businesses giving support , blacksmiths , cobblers , tailors , and village stores . |
| 21 | For centuries agriculture was the main economy of the Glarus . |
| 22 | The last work of literature to be prosecuted for obscenity in a full-blooded Old Bailey trial was an undistinguished paperback entitled " Inside Linda Lovelace " . |
| 23 | ‘ The commandant of Jasenovac concentration camp was a Franciscan monk . ’ |
| 24 | Detective Sergeant Lucy Lane was an established member of the Serious Crimes Squad and she more than earned her keep . |
| 25 | The urgency which at this stage was given to the need for a new War Department building was a direct aftermath of the Crimean War . |
| 26 | Her short hair and weight loss were the only clues to her ordeal . |
| 27 | Dysphagia and weight loss were the only symptoms found significantly more frequently in patients at stage IV compared with patients at stages II or III . |
| 28 | A wool skirt was a strange thing to one whose life had been spent battling the sun . |
| 29 | Another important Culham experiment was the 8-metre theta pinch Ion which New Scientist 's present editor worked ) . |
| 30 | The lack of enemy opposition was a far cry from the next two missions on May 7 and 8 . |