Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph four of General Montgomery 's personal message to the men of 2lst Army Group was a verse from Montrose 's ‘ My Dear and Only Love ’ : |
| 2 | Harding 's election appeal was a call for " normalcy " : " America 's present need is not heroics , but healings ; not nostrums but normalcy " . |
| 3 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 4 | But Daine 's bove bimbo was a fantasy , and Susan was real . |
| 5 | Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago . |
| 6 | Mrs Hatton 's engagement diary was a calendar in the shape of a rectangular book . |
| 7 | Lancashire 's batting performance was a bitter disappointment after their four seamers reduced Essex to 222 all out . |
| 8 | The remainder of Christie 's evening sale was a more erratic affair . |
| 9 | At Vladivostok , the station which rose on Nicholas 's foundation stone was a baleful prison-like building with two blocks linked by a single-storey entrance range . |
| 10 | BOLDLY ENTERING the future , preparing the way for the high-tech innovations that were to come , Stanley Kubrick 's sci-fi masterpiece was a visionary work combining an astronaut 's human drama with a psychedelic outer space exploration ; tripping through galaxies , pondering the very nature of existence , man 's dependence on machines and the evolution of extra-terrestrial intelligence . |
| 11 | The King 's Bench Prison was a sad refuge as a reward for nineteen years of intense devotion to painting and having his works received with enthusiasm in England and Scotland , and visited by thousands in both countries . |
| 12 | Political observers felt , however , that difficulties could still arise with the USA , because of his publicly expressed view that Japan 's trade surplus was a " fundamentally insoluble problem " caused by unstoppable world demand for superior Japanese products , and would remain impervious to import tariffs or even major currency shifts . |
| 13 | Angelica 's greasepaint make-up was a pale bluish grey , her hair a mass of tomato ketchup . |
| 14 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 15 | Premack 's prize pupil was a wild-born chimpanzee , Sarah . |
| 16 | Similarly , they argued that a person 's motor racing was a hobby in Atlas Marketing ( 1985 ) 2 BVC 205 , 298 . |
| 17 | After the separation from her husband , Blanche 's love life was a Russian roulette of the emotions : taking men to her heart , and sometimes to her bed , with the fateful enthusiasm of a suicide pulling the trigger of a gun . |
| 18 | In most other respects Pateman 's WETUC role was a passive one . |
| 19 | It is probably a minority of medieval antifeminist writing that was meant to be taken literally rather than metaphorically ; even Jerome 's model diatribe was a rhetorical exercise designed for the refutation of Jovinianus and the assertion of the value of celibacy . |
| 20 | The officer 's undress headgear was a dark blue visored forage cap of ‘ pill-box ’ shape : ‘ … the diameter at the top slightly less than at the base , the height 3¼ inches all round ; … |
| 21 | The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 . |
| 22 | The farmers ' employment status was a mixture of self-employed and employee , and included British Steel managers , solicitors , insurance agents , consultants , teachers and business owners . |