Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrasting the different methods of production was a valuable exercise to those unfamiliar with traditional weaving methods with many unique sales points being identified in the process . |
| 2 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 3 | Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia . |
| 4 | Nor did the Socialists abandon political appointments ; indeed , the growing number of party activists occupying senior management posts in public enterprises ( see Diario 16 , 30 January 1985 ) illustrated the government 's belief that the introduction of its policies of commercialism was an operation demanding political rather than purely managerial skill . |
| 5 | Its only significant concession to opponents of abortion was a clause which required parental notification in the case of young women under the age of 18 , although notification could be waived if a doctor concluded that it was not in her best interest . |
| 6 | Parallel to the highly-publicised excesses of punk was an equally important but historically invisible development , the growth of black popular culture , particularly the development of soul music . |
| 7 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 8 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 9 | The Working Party had been instructed by the Council to begin a consideration of longer-term developments , and possible models of development was an agenda item for this meeting . |
| 10 | This reversal of earlier antislavery history in which London-based committees had sought to mobilise the provinces from their self-anointed positions of leadership was a sign that an aroused antislavery public expected its demands to override tendencies to parliamentary compromise and to render manoeuvre within virtually irrelevant . |
| 11 | What they did achieve in terms of breadth was a nice balance among kinds of schools , geographical positions and rural/inner city contrasts . |
| 12 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 13 | We were both keen members of the Holiday Fellowship , and Youth Hostels Association , so one of our main items of luggage was an Ordnance Survey Map . |
| 14 | Baghdad 's accusing Tehran of being the servants of Zionism was a reference to the Israeli role in resupplying Iran 's armed forces in what came to be known as Irangate ; in a broadcast in February 1986 , Baghdad radio named the Israeli agent Colonel Nimrudi , who featured prominently in separate coverage of the affair . |
| 15 | Beyond the great sweep of blue trouser and the distant clouds of sweater was a beard . |
| 16 | Central to the legislators ' notions of purity was an all-pervasive blood taboo which , as has been demonstrated above , embraced foodstuffs , sacrificial victims , humans , etc. , and very definitely separated out the male from the female . |
| 17 | What eventually emerged from Labour 's contemplation of the entrails of defeat was an increasingly widespread belief — not , until recently , much shared on the left — that public ownership was not the essence of Labour 's case , but that equality was . |