Example sentences of "the [noun] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response was a tightening up of Poor Law policy from 1871 . |
| 2 | The response was a forgery purporting to be a letter from Gregori Zinoviev , president of the Third International in Moscow , to the British Communist Party , urging it to promote revolution and to foment mutiny in the armed forces . |
| 3 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 4 | er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ? |
| 5 | In fact , the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel . |
| 6 | The fountain in the park was an enchantment , with the orchestra at the beginning iridescent , all seen in reflection from afar . |
| 7 | Making its debut and dominating the stand was the brand new First 53f5 , born of a collaboration between naval architect Bruce Farr , and stylist Pininfarina , with Bénéteau themselves contributing a considerable amount of production engineering technology . |
| 8 | The conscious articulation of the ideology was a product both of political crisis — the fear of social disintegration for which the breakdown of familial and sexual order became a striking metaphor — and of the self-development of an increasingly dominant class . |
| 9 | The remainder was the yield on various customs and excise duties levied primarily on beer , spirits , wines , tobacco , cocoa and other ‘ luxury ’ items which varied a little from budget to budget . |
| 10 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 11 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 12 | Because it solved a business problem , the reduction was a step forward . |
| 13 | The beard was a kind of super beard , a beard to end all beards , a great reprise on some of the world 's finest and most significant beards . |
| 14 | The link was a woman : she lived with the allies , raised their children , arranged further marriages between them and her brothers ' children . |
| 15 | He knew the Prince was a connoisseur of luxury , deeply influenced by the new designs from the prosperous Italian states . |
| 16 | Their Lordships agreed that the plan to immobilize the base was a purpose ‘ prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State ’ as required by the words of the section . |
| 17 | At the base was a terrace with one stool on it . |
| 18 | The base was the size of a cheese plate . |
| 19 | Halling fell into this pattern , for after the Charter the Lord of the Manor was the Bishop of Rochester , for whom a bailiff or reeve controlled his lands . |
| 20 | Possibly it could have led to gastric ulcers and an early coronary , so perhaps the change was a blessing in disguise ? |
| 21 | The essence of the change was the removal of sin from the ambit of the law . |
| 22 | ‘ That Kirsty came along and appeared in the sittings was a by-product , but made me think ‘ why not animals , as well ? ’ |
| 23 | All that now remained of the Hôtel was a couple of tall stone gateposts some thirty feet apart . |
| 24 | Reportedly leaving these shores to become part of the National Air & Space Museum in Washington , DC , the Nieuport was a show-stealer during its sojourn with the Shuttleworth Collection . |
| 25 | A further attribute declaring whether the solid was a sub-space of the void or vice versa , would have established whether the pin finished below the surface of the block or extended above it . |
| 26 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 27 | As the trial was a comparison of two systems of care the prompted care group subjects could be referred through the system to hospital outpatients , while the hospital clinic group patients could consult their general practitioner for diabetes related reasons . |
| 28 | Twenty mothers were involved , and the main focus of the trial was the role of cow 's milk in causing colic . |
| 29 | The trial was an ordeal for everyone directly or indirectly involved . |
| 30 | One sign of the success of the EEC was the change it brought to British policy . |