Example sentences of "[noun sg] was an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel was an internal overshot type of modest proportions ( around 8′ diameter and 47′ width ) an unusual combination for this area . |
| 2 | Cognitio was an official procedure , and a judgment given in it was based on magisterial authority . |
| 3 | This enforced isolation was an accepted part of life in the dale , coming , as it did , every two or three years . |
| 4 | Accordingly , a writ of habeas corpus could not issue ; the appropriate remedy was an application for bail before a judge in chambers . |
| 5 | In this respect the Association was an important influence on later youth workers who saw that a combination of religion , recreation and welfare could capture the allegiance of members , and thus provide numerous opportunities for their social education . |
| 6 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |
| 7 | The only significant association was an increased risk of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma associated with first pregnancy . |
| 8 | Holding office in the Association was an important indicator of status in the scientific community by this time . |
| 9 | The 1993 Booksellers Association was an inward-looking event , poorly attended by independent booksellers , and one which said surprisingly little about the importance of the consumer for the modern retail market . |
| 10 | His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description . |
| 11 | For Europe , Marshall Aid was an important element in its recovery : for Britain it was first a safeguard and then a prop to the sterling area [ cf. |
| 12 | But if the stranger was an exact replica of myself , behaved in exactly the same way , etc. , he would obviously find it more difficult to make a correct identification . |
| 13 | The mistake with the card was an understandable one . |
| 14 | Somewhere I 'd read that a card was an invaluable social lubricant in South America . |
| 15 | ‘ That experiment was an indication that we should continue . |
| 16 | The programme selected for this experiment was an episode of Pathfinders to Venus , a series already demonstrated as the main forerunner of Doctor Who . |
| 17 | Crew co-captain Mark Van Thillo , from Antwerp , Belgium , said the experiment was an outstanding success . |
| 18 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 19 | His Protestantism was an intensely private religion in which the effects of devotion were directed inwardly to produce change of heart or mental illumination . |
| 20 | Dialectic reasoning was an attempt to arrive at truth by exploring the contradictions in an argument . |
| 21 | The medieval manor was an area of land given to a man by the king or an important baron . |
| 22 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 23 | On the upper register of the monument was an ambitious if small-scale scene of battle , now reworked to show Paullus ' victory at Pydna . |
| 24 | It was , without question , the coldest morning of the on-coming winter ; bracing if you were heading for home or office , but verging on bitter if your bedroom was an alley or a doorway . |
| 25 | The tradition of foreign investment was an old one and the spread of shareholding in joint stock companies and the practice of floating foreign loans in London , Berlin or Paris , all tied the economic affairs of one European country closely to those of others . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 27 | My meeting with the Countess was an uplifting occasion — we became firm friends at once — but also , privately , a saddening one . |
| 28 | Fiona 's first appointment with her obstetrician was an eye-opener . |
| 29 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 30 | Accepting this loss was an important part of his counselling . |