Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the defeat of Ecgfrith was obviously a serious military setback for the northern Angles . |
| 2 | An example of this was the Michelson-Morley experiment , performed in 1887 , which showed that the speed of light was always the same , no matter how the source or the observer was moving . |
| 3 | However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same . |
| 4 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 5 | Comparing like with like , Concept says that consolidated 1992 revenues were down to $62.5m from $71.5m ; its net loss of $11.9m was only a fraction of 1991 's whopping $107.3m deficit . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 9 | Yet a loss of jobs was often the pre-condition of restored viability . |
| 10 | The study of functions was originally an offshoot of the study of properties of curves , geometrically defined , so it is interesting to see how a modern definition of function , expressed in terms of the set concept , is equivalent to what you would , in the case of a real valued function of one real variable , naturally think of as the graph of the function . |
| 11 | Olaf of Norway was not the only sea-lord , veteran of countless shipboard battles and raids , to find a straightforward land-conflict beyond him . |
| 12 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 13 | This village on the River Tamar 4 miles south-west of Tavistock was once a very busy port serving the largest copper mine in Europe , known as Great Consols . |
| 14 | As Table 3.9 shows , while the largest category of owners was still the independents , the number of weeklies taken into the provincial and national chains increased enormously . |
| 15 | The death of Earl Patrick of Salisbury was still an episode which aroused harsh feelings on both sides . |
| 16 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 17 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 18 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | That phrase from An Outcast of the Islands is a reminder that Heart of Darkness was not the only Conrad novel in Eliot 's mind during this period . |
| 20 | From her account males did not often share their food with others , and the feeding of children was largely the mother 's responsibility . |
| 21 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 22 | The progressive appearance of ever-higher forms of life was not the result of blindly operating natural laws , but the step-by-step unfolding of a preordained pattern that the Creator had built into the universe . |
| 23 | The Queen of Pleasures was only a cruel misnomer for the Whore of Babylon . |
| 24 | The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual . |
| 25 | It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question . |
| 26 | Human surgery and medicine would always be superior to a profession where the education was less expensive , the difficulties of the courses of instruction were fewer , emoluments were smaller , and the sanctity of life was not a determinant of treatment . |
| 27 | Twenty-four hours later he admonished Babs for over-stressing the little-girl aspect of Cleopatra , pointing out that childishness of character was not a question of years and that she was mistaken if she supposed the difference between folly and wisdom had anything to do with either age or youth . |
| 28 | The conventional type of bridge was obviously an impossibility under war condition , owing to the necessity to survey the site , and the time for its provision . |
| 29 | This type of ritual was already a very ancient custom by the time the famous Temple of Artemis was built , around 600 BC ; it had been a common practice in Anatolia , Syria , Mesopotamia and Egypt ( Trell 1988 ) . |
| 30 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |