Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun sg] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the condition of the meat when the cages were regurgitated , he inferred that digestion was a chemical rather than a mechanical process . |
| 2 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |
| 3 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 4 | All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper . |
| 5 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 6 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 7 | The main reason for this lack of use appears have been uncertainty regarding the potential of such a source , a small number of companies indicated that cost was a factor deterring them from this type of information . |
| 8 | Jesus taught that discipleship was a journey and following him a narrow path ( Mk. 8.34 ) . |
| 9 | But men who 'd probably been men since the age of 14 , when they decided that school was a wank and that , rather than hanging around waiting for a dead-end job , they 'd go out and find their own way to make a living . |
| 10 | Such an alliance , for Bukharin , implied that co-operation was the keystone of success , not confrontation , as implied by the drive towards forced collectivisation . |
| 11 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 12 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 13 | The future lay with minds of a different type — minds which saw that government was a matter of administration , and not an attempt to reproduce on earth a pattern of things laid up in Heaven . |
| 14 | ‘ The way we won that war was a BLAST , but compared to Rambo or even Vietnam , it was a real SNORE ! … |
| 15 | Never to volunteer for anything , for instance ; to keep her bedspace clean and tidy ; never , ever , to forget the eleventh commandment , Thou shall not get found out ; and if you were prepared to agree that every word of King 's Regulations was Holy Writ and accepted that leave was a privilege and not a right , then life in the Navy need n't be all that bad . |
| 16 | The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance . |
| 17 | The court held that necessity was a defence to trespass provided there was no negligence on the part of the defendant . |
| 18 | All emphasized that Cubism was an art of realism , although natural appearances were playing an ever-diminishing part . |