Example sentences of "[was/were] an [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true , we were an enclave of revolutionary supporters . |
| 2 | In so far as these religious matters were an expression of English resentment against their conquerors , such a Danish attitude would have tended to appease and disarm the opposition . |
| 3 | ‘ If ever there were an indictment of uncontrolled human responses , here it is , ’ George said bitterly . |
| 4 | Those inter-war years were an age of fidgety unease , following the buoyant confidence of the late Victorian and Edwardian era : witness the constant nervy fiddling with the Championship points system between 1919 and 1939 , yet with never an assured reappraisal of the basic structure and apparatus of the game . |
| 5 | The boots , Mayhew tells us , were an object of special pride , often ‘ tastily ornamented … with a heart or thistle surrounded by a wreath of roses , worked below the instep ’ . |
| 6 | That night , sleeping on the draughty slab floor of the fuller 's loft , without supper or a blanket , Gabriel 's dreams were an avalanche of frightening pictures . |
| 7 | Last , but not always least , came a desire to emulate Western nations for whom the securing of concessions in East Asia and elsewhere was an indicator of Great Power status . |
| 8 | The publication of the Review Report Better management , better health ( BM , BH ) in 1986 was an occasion of great significance . |
| 9 | He closed the book to look at the scenery of his native Cheshire hurtling by , but there was an expression of pleasurable anticipation on his face . |
| 10 | Rather , it was an expression of supreme confidence in the immutability of his creation . |
| 11 | There was an expression of frozen terror on Emilia 's face . |
| 12 | On his face was an expression of deep sadness . |
| 13 | There was an expression of terrible natural justice , and she was rendered breathless by a profound understanding of just why lions were seen as kings . |
| 14 | On his face was an expression of absolute terror . |
| 15 | Her eyes were wide open , and upon her face was an expression of absolute astonishment . |
| 16 | What was it , it was an alliance of democratic nations . |
| 17 | This was an act of sheer bravado , to which he merely smiled politely and pointed at my stomach : |
| 18 | ‘ This was an act of sheer barbarism , ’ said a temple official . |
| 19 | The judge was reminded by her counsel that the offence was an act of sheer desperation . |
| 20 | She complained to an industrial tribunal that the main reason for her dismissal was that she was pregnant so that her dismissal was an act of unlawful sex discrimination contrary to the 1975 Act . |
| 21 | It was an act of pure convenience to tell Peter 's father that his son had been treated insensitively and perhaps unjustly . |
| 22 | From this it would seem that that he had no objection to these practices in principle ; his refusal was an act of personal obedience to decrees which he had heard , and by implication promised to obey . |
| 23 | It was an act of heroic self-sacrifice . |
| 24 | It was an act of petty revenge . |
| 25 | " The Corporation at that time felt that the offer made to them was an act of great liberality , and accepted it with a clear understanding that the connection between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the School ( excepting the large annual endowment of £290 which the Company agreed to pay was concerned ) was at an end . |
| 26 | Well , my doe-eyed ingénue , it was an act of simple kindness and consideration : I did n't want to frighten the mares … ’ |
| 27 | It was an act of creative destruction , but in those first few days at the refuge what had seemed positive began to seem rootless and resourceless . |
| 28 | The RSPCA says it was an act of mindless cruelty , he should have been banned for life . |
| 29 | In reference to the number of subscriptions in Hanoverian England , Pat Rogers maintains that ‘ To be able to spend enough money on a leisure activity , and to be seen to do so , was an act of social definition . ’ |
| 30 | But it was an axiom of mid-nineteenth-century employers that wages must be kept as low as possible , though intelligent entrepreneurs with international experience , like Thomas Brassey , the railway builder , were beginning to point out that the labour of the well-paid British workman was in fact cheaper than that of the abysmally paid coolie , because his productivity was so much higher . |