Example sentences of "was an [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That week was an eternity of solitude and boredom . |
| 2 | Most political scientists quickly came to argue that things had gone badly wrong : some groups were too powerful and the system as a whole was seen as out of control so that there was an overload of demands on government . |
| 3 | Under the 1965 provisions , death was an occasion of charge . |
| 4 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 5 | With increased capital expenditure and a build up of working capital , there was an outflow of cash in the year following two years of strong positive cash flow . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , it has often been said that foreign learners of English need to learn English intonation ; some have gone further than this and claimed that , unless the foreign learner learns the appropriate way to use intonation in a given situation , there is a risk that he or she may unintentionally give offence ; for example , the learner might use an intonation suitable for expressing boredom or discontent when what was needed was an expression of gratitude or affection . |
| 7 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 8 | Last time it was an expression of love , this time a matter of law . |
| 9 | She was drunk , but it was not a prophesy or even a sexual invitation , it was an expression of delight . |
| 10 | There was an expression of bemusement and depression in The Politics of Greed ( NI 188 ) concerning the advance of the New Right . |
| 11 | There was an expression of shock on the shapechanger 's face . |
| 12 | Cecil 's response , which they received on 6 August , was an expression of sympathy — and equally cautious . |
| 13 | I would have welcomed even a reproachful speech from the coroner but all I got from him was an expression of sympathy . |
| 14 | There was an expression of curiosity on his face . |
| 15 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 16 | ‘ That it was an attack of prosperity , plain and simple ? ’ |
| 17 | " I went for a check-up but , in my heart of hearts , I recognised that it was an attack of panic more than anything else , " she remembers . |
| 18 | Then with a sardonic smile he replied : ‘ I think the first sign , the very first symptom of Waldsterben , was an attack of blindness in foresters . ’ |
| 19 | Royal College records show that the only disorder in his health noted in 1953 was an attack of VD from which he quickly recovered . |
| 20 | Pooley wondered if it was an attack of nerves or the result of alcohol withdrawal symptoms . |
| 21 | This was an Africa of gold and robes , and a bloodiness which reminded the boy Thesiger of The Iliad . |
| 22 | Erase the notion back home that this was an equivalent of football 's Costa Rica , though the galling aspect was that Scottish mistakes were a telling factor . |
| 23 | Erase the notion back home that this was an equivalent of football 's Costa Rica , though the galling aspect was that Scottish mistakes were a telling factor . |
| 24 | Cowabunga was an exclamation of joy or approval among the surfing fraternity . |
| 25 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 26 | ‘ It was an act of defiance , she told me . |
| 27 | In June the same year the Lytham line re-opened with forty electric cars , which was an act of faith , considering that there were only ninety-two houses between South Shore and Ansdell ! |
| 28 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 29 | The blessing of Joseph 's sons was an act of faith ( Hebrews 11:21 ) . |
| 30 | For Abelard , then , the cross was an act of love which , though past , still has immense capacity to create . |